thats not going to work, i need it to fit inside a 2 inch pole light. I see lots of the ones your showing me but the one I want is on a small circuit board and has a knob on it so you can turn it on "click" and rotate it to dim it "diiiiiiiimmmm"

see here is something similar to what I have and there is a switch on the pole to turn the light on and dim it and thats what i'm looking for.


Thank you

 

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??? huh .....

 

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Oh Happy Festivus to you too

 

Your lamp reminded me of the Festivus pole.

Wouldn't it be easier just to get a 3 way dimming switch?

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I had a friend who did something similar. He just hid the dimmer unit behind a chair.

You obviously have a good reason to want this thing to fit inside the pole? You can't hid it in the base or something where there is more room?


Torben

 

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Yeah I looked under there as well but seams like it is pack with some sort of weight I guess to hold it upright and up top is where the bulbs are inside is where I have the room. See I had a 3 way switch on it before (it came like that) and it had 3 setting little dim then medium dim then full wattage, but when I usally watch a movie I like to make the room dim and this did not go down that much. So eventually that switch broke some how and I tried to look for the one where I can control the dimmness kinda like volume but I was unable to find one and so that why I came to and thought I can just build one as I have built a few circuits before. but they were all 12 volt or 9 volt. I would like to keep it original style if I can. I know blueroom is going through the trouble of showing me a bunch and they will work but not what i'm looking for. Well I guess I'll just keep hunting around or just try to work on this circuit. Oh and by the way I apologise for some of the earlier post and some of the people here I get out of hand sometimes under pressure. haha

 

hi Sammy,
We seem, to be losing our way on your thread, [obscured by smoke I guess.. ]

In the UK you can buy a plug assembly [like a wall wart] that has an inbuilt dimmer, you then plug your pole lamp [standard lamp for UK readers] into the socket on the wall plug.
There is a small dimmer knob on the wall plug..

Do you follow, OK.?

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I do follow but I don't have a plug that is controled by a switch.