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Unless dimmer switch also acted as an inductive load in itself.....Is this possible? Anyone?
Just thinking out load, please don't gun me down if I'm being a fool
Dimming is quite a difficult subject which i only know a little about. The very old dimmer switches which were basically a coiled variable resistor/potentiometer (were very wasteful of energy)so would have been inductive.
Modern dimmers are more efficent and use electronics in different ways, some can use inductive phase shifting via inductive elements in the circuit and others operate by using thyristors for high speed switching of the wave form to reduce the average voltage applied. These ones however, i believe, also then use inductors to suppress radio interference.
So yes it is likely that the dimmers themselves are inductive.
edit, btw loved the "thinking out load"
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