Replace touch dimmer control

[yong321]

I bought "Indoor Wire-In 3-Level Touch Dimmer Replacement"
http://www.amertac.com/results_details.php?id=6503BC

to replace the burned touch control in my touch-sensitive lamp. In the
picture
http://yong321.freeshell.org/temp/TouchDimmerReplacement.jpg
or a bigger picture, with instruction of the AmerTac kit:
http://yong321.freeshell.org/temp/TouchDimmerReplacement2.jpg
the old one on the right is still attached. The new kit is on the
lower left.

I know the yellow wire is ground. But I'm not sure which wire on the
new kit replaces which on the old dimmer control. The instruction has
labels "Wide Labels", "Ribbed", etc for the wires. How do I translate
that to match the wires on my old dimmer? Thanks.

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2012-05-07, yong321 <yong321@yahoo.com> wrote:

I bought "Indoor Wire-In 3-Level Touch Dimmer Replacement"
http://www.amertac.com/results_details.php?id=6503BC

to replace the burned touch control in my touch-sensitive lamp. In the
picture
http://yong321.freeshell.org/temp/TouchDimmerReplacement.jpg
or a bigger picture, with instruction of the AmerTac kit:
http://yong321.freeshell.org/temp/TouchDimmerReplacement2.jpg
the old one on the right is still attached. The new kit is on the
lower left.

I know the yellow wire is ground. But I'm not sure which wire on the
new kit replaces which on the old dimmer control. The instruction has
labels "Wide Labels", "Ribbed", etc for the wires. How do I translate
that to match the wires on my old dimmer? Thanks.

the yellow wire is not ground, it goes to the touchplate or lamp body,
whatever it is you touch to operate the dimmer.

Wide refers to the wide pin on the lamp plug, from that runs a wire
labeled as "ribbed" which connects to the grey wire on the dimmer and
to the lamp.

The narrow plug pin connects to a wire that connects to the black wire
on the dimmer , and the brown wire on the dimmer connects to the other
terminal on the lamp.

if your power plug does not have wide and narrow pins you probably
don't have a 120V electrical supply and this dimmer isn't going to
work for you.


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[yong321]

On May 8, 4:50 am, Jasen Betts <ja...@xnet.co.nz> wrote:

On 2012-05-07, yong321 <yong...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I bought "Indoor Wire-In 3-Level Touch Dimmer Replacement"
http://www.amertac.com/results_details.php?id=6503BC

to replace the burned touch control in my touch-sensitive lamp. In the
picture
http://yong321.freeshell.org/temp/TouchDimmerReplacement.jpg
or a bigger picture, with instruction of the AmerTac kit:
http://yong321.freeshell.org/temp/TouchDimmerReplacement2.jpg
the old one on the right is still attached. The new kit is on the
lower left.
I know the yellow wire is ground. But I'm not sure which wire on the
new kit replaces which on the old dimmer control. The instruction has
labels "Wide Labels", "Ribbed", etc for the wires. How do I translate
that to match the wires on my old dimmer? Thanks.

the yellow wire is not ground, it goes to the touchplate or lamp body,
whatever it is you touch to operate the dimmer.

Wide refers to the wide pin on the lamp plug, from that runs a wire
labeled as "ribbed" which connects to the grey wire on the dimmer and
to the lamp.

The narrow plug pin connects to a wire that connects to the black wire
on the dimmer , and the brown wire on the dimmer connects to the other
terminal on the lamp.

if your power plug does not have wide and narrow pins you probably
don't have a 120V electrical supply and this dimmer isn't going to
work for you.

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Thanks a lot Jasen. I followed your instruction and replaced the
dimmer control. It works perfectly! You have a nice day.