I have a question about dimmer switches for LED flood lights. My kitchen has six floodlights on a Lutron toggler dimmer switch, model AY-603P.
http://www.lutron.com/en-US/pages/SupportCenter/support.aspx?modelNumber=AY-603P&&SECTION=Documents
Up until now I have had fluorescent lights in them. The lights needed replacing so I ordered some new ones, however, I accidentally ordered these LED bulbs instead…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076HXK16H/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The LED bulbs I ordered are dimmable so I decided to try them out and they seem to work just fine on my dimmer switch, no buzzing or flickering. My question is…
Is this safe? I had read that I should only use LED approved dimmer switches with LED bulbs. My dimmer model does not say that it is LED compatible, the manual for the Lutron AY-603P dimmer switch says that it can be used with halogen and incandescent lights, it doesn't say anything about LED lights. Are there any electrical risks to using LED bulbs on a this type of dimmer switch? Any commentary guidance would be welcome. Thanks!
Best Answer
Nope
From this LED compatibility guide on Lutron's site, the following output.
Further, The service manual you link states clear that
That's it. It's not "not saying" about LEDs, it's saying very specifically about LEDs, since it allows only incandescent and halogen (which are incandescent). Open up "See Aridani/Toggler model numbers", and open up "Dimmers" (the only category), i.e. here, it lists several categories and the results in each echo the above.
Welcome to the world of off-label usage. Which means UL has not tested this equipment for this usage. It might work, might not, might get magic smoke, it's all on you.
So the ultimate answer to your question is, shrug...