The builder built my house with multiple outdoor lights on a single circuit. Most of the lights are non-dimmable LED wall fixtures, but 2 of them are dimmable 6" LED baffles under an overhang. He put all of these onto a single dimmer switch, which has now broken 2 of the non-dimmable LED fixtures. They will no longer light up at any current without blinking. I have since replaced them and the dimmer switch with a normal on/off switch.
I'd like to power the non-dimmable LED fixtures at full current, but run the LED baffles at a ~10% or so dimmed setting since they're next to a bedroom. I tried to find "lowest wattage equivalent" baffles for the 6" cans, but even the smallest I could find were still 13W and gave off 900 lumens.
I figure I could do this by cutting into the wall and installing an inline dimmer switch before the 2 dimmable LEDs, since they're at the end of the run. But, I was hoping for a less invasive way to do this and since these are outside that's not a great solution. Could I put some kind of inline resistor before the first LED to lower the current to the 2 LED fixtures or something else to permanently dim them?
Thanks.
Best Answer
I used an NO relay at the back of the switch box. Link here. The dimmer now dims the LED baffles and the relay always send full current to the non-dimmable LEDs whenever the dimmer is at any level.