[BC] Attack of the Demon Dimmers

[Tom Taggart]

The old GE 600 watt dimmer died on the chandelier above the dining room  
table.  Complaints drove me to the local hardware store for a  
replacement.   They had a Trimatron Model 700 made in some Chinese factory  
for Levitron.

Has three wires--hot/load and ground.  Unlike the old GE dimmer.  Hooked  
up the two black wires, dimmer worked, but horrific noise all across the  
AM band.  Where to hook the ground--would that help?  Well, my house was  
built in in 1955, but the other switch in the box had a neutral  
connection, hooked up the ground to that. No change in AM noise.  The  
noise is so bad that I can hear it on a local kilowatt daytimer on my car  
radio just outside the house. Part 15?  WE don't need no part 15.

I'm going to the electrical supply place next town overand see what I can  
find, this thing is going in the trash.  Or maybe I can drill out the  
rivet & find a new SCR for the GE.  Unfortunately, there must be hundreds  
of thousands of these things already out there.

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