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trgoldb Posted on Sep 09, 2012
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Lights turn themselves on and off

I have several places in my house where there are 2 Leviton True Touch dimmers (1 master TT106-1 and 1 remote TTOOR-1) on the same circuit. These lights frequently turn themselves on and off by themselves. What is causing this and how can I stop it?

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I have seen conditions of poor / missing ground, high humidity and nearby two way radio operation (CB, Ham, Police, Taxi, etc.) cause unattended operation (on and off).

Make sure the switch surfaces are clean and dry. Try changing metal switch plates to plastic / nylon (and vice-versa) types.

Ensure that the switch is grounded. Before removing switch from box, shut power OFF. Carefully pull the switch from the box and make sure the switch's ground wire is connected to the ground conductors in the box.

Ultimately, if you are unable to solve the problem with these true touch dimmers, changing to a rotary knob / slide operated dimmer or even a standard toggle switch should work without incident.

I hope this helps and good luck!

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jdthefixer

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  • Posted on May 10, 2009

SOURCE: I have a leviton 057 with 2 black wires and 1

See this link:

http://www.easy2diy.com/cm/easy/diy_ht_index.asp?page_id=35720237

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 04, 2010

SOURCE: On/off works but dimmers do not. leviton toggle

If each pendant has an individual transformer that is about the size of a hotwheel then you need a dimmer specifically for ELECTRONIC LOW VOLTAGE. A lot of electricians don't know that the different types of lights require different dimmers. Most store bought dimmers are for incandescent lights only, and some nicer dimmers like the Lutron Maestro's are rated for incandescent or MAGNETIC Low Voltage which require a different Sin wave interuption. I don't know that leviton makes a dimmer in that style for Electronic Low Voltage. You could install a Lutron DVELV300P-Wh, but that is a Decora opening. http://www.lutron.com/CMS400/WorkArea/downloadasset.aspx?id=25437
Here is a link to explain the difference in how the dimmer needs to work. Good luck!

Testimonial: "Excellent answer! As Lutron is not available in my small town (on an island in Southeast Alaska) I will likely be ordering a dimmer online. Thanks!"

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 15, 2010

SOURCE: leviton 057 dimmer 2 black and 1 green wire in a

i want two dimmer switch parrel they both fhave two black and one green how fo you wire it up

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 17, 2010

SOURCE: Hi, I have a leviton

You said they are 50 watt GU10's, so I would assume they are 120V halogens, and you must simply have gotten a bad dimmer. But if these GU10's are 50 watt equivalent (LED's or CFL's) then the bulbs will have their own transformers built into them, and would be incompatible with a dimmer switch. It also might be the case that you have low voltage halogens which would use a transformer, shared or individual, and these would also be incompatible with a dimmer. (I don't know offhand if GU10's are available with low voltage halogens.)

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 24, 2011

SOURCE: I'M REPLACING AN OLD LEVITON

with a three way switch like this, you will have two traveller wires and a common wire. Look in the instructions for the switch or on the back of the device itself to see if there is a wire labeled "common" or "com". This common wire from the old switch hooks up to the common wire on the new switch. I did a bit of searching on the leviton 6602, but couldn't find anything specifically about the three way version (I would venture to guess, however, that the red wire on the old switch is the common). The common on one of the three way switches will always be a constant hot (or power) wire...the common on the other three way switch will be the "switch leg" or the wire that connects directly to the light. The two travellers go to the other two wires. Check the pamplet that came with the lutron device, it should show which wire is common and which are travellers.

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