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Old 05-25-2020, 01:55 AM   #70235
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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon View Post
This last time was a dimmer switch that flickered intermittently out of the box. Probably an exhausted kid completely missed a pad when hand-soldering surface-mounted components. Soldered the little zener diode. No change. Fuck you, Feit.

Who do you like for a nice dependable dimmer switch? Don't mind paying for it.
Oh, how about a Leviton. The old one could dim/turn off by turning it or turn it on/off by punching it. The granddaughters "punched" it one too many times too hard.

The new one just turns to turn on/off and dim.

After I installed it I showed the 3 ager that she didn't have to jump up and slam the hell out of the new one - just gently turn the knob.

So, I put her in charge of explaining how it was to be used to her sisters and ma-ma. She came up to me last week and said that her sisters caught on but ma-ma is still trying to "punch" it -
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