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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Timmerman" data-source="post: 140898" data-attributes="member: 172">Re: LED lamps/PAR38This information is a few years out of date.&nbsp; First off, the BakPak dimmers from Strand (originally made by&nbsp; Entertainment Technologies) support &quot;reverse phase&quot; dimming, and have for roughly 10 years.&nbsp; But they aren&#039;t priced as entry-level products, and probably don&#039;t make sense to purchase just to use LED lamps.But that&#039;s irrelevant, as many (most?) of the current crop of LED PAR lamps support normal TRIAC-based dimmers just fine.&nbsp; In fact, some of the Lutron dimmers designed specifically to control LED loads are leading-edge dimmers, not &quot;reverse-phase&quot; dimmers.To the OP, you are unlikely to damage anything by trying a modern dimmable LED PAR lamp on your current dimmers, although the dimming performance does vary&nbsp; depending on the lamp and dimmer combination.&nbsp; Most combinations won&#039;t dim below about 10% (~30% perceived), so that may be a concern for you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rob Timmerman, post: 140898, member: 172"] Re: LED lamps/PAR38 This information is a few years out of date. First off, the BakPak dimmers from Strand (originally made by Entertainment Technologies) support "reverse phase" dimming, and have for roughly 10 years. But they aren't priced as entry-level products, and probably don't make sense to purchase just to use LED lamps. But that's irrelevant, as many (most?) of the current crop of LED PAR lamps support normal TRIAC-based dimmers just fine. In fact, some of the Lutron dimmers designed specifically to control LED loads are leading-edge dimmers, not "reverse-phase" dimmers. To the OP, you are unlikely to damage anything by trying a modern dimmable LED PAR lamp on your current dimmers, although the dimming performance does vary depending on the lamp and dimmer combination. Most combinations won't dim below about 10% (~30% perceived), so that may be a concern for you. [/QUOTE]

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