GE Single Pole Rotating Dimmer Switch, Rotate On/Off, Use with Dimmable LED, CFL, and Incandescent Bulbs, Includes Two Knob Colors, UL Listed, White/Light Almond, 18021

When I was a kid, I remember discovering the existence of dimmers, and thought they were amazing! But my dad said they were really expensive, and then you have to hire an electrician, so it's even more expensive.HE WAS SO WRONG!I don't have a lot of experience doing DIY electrical work, but I've installed a few light fixtures. This was MUCH easier to install. Of course, you do need to understand the basics of household electricity, but some YouTube videos ought to do the trick. This was not hard to install!I installed a very bright light fixture with lots of bare Edison bulbs over my kitchen table, and we found it blinding! A dimmer was the solution! Now we can have bright light when we want it for working on projects at the kitchen table, or much softer lighting at meals.I LOVE IT.It's easy to tap the knob to turn it on and off, and easy to twist the knob to adjust the brightness. There are much more expensive dimmers out there, but I can't imagine why you would want anything more complicated than this!I love that the design is very plain, so it doesn't draw attention to itself, and that it comes with two colors of knobs to make sure it matches your switchplate.FYI, you don't need a special switchplate! I was looking all over Amazon to find a specialty wall plate for a dimmer, but turns out, you just use a regular light switch cover plate, and the knob covers up the rectangular hole for the old light switch.I realized I had a lighting problem in my bedroom, too. I got bedside lamps and smart bulbs for them, so I could have softer lighting that didn't blind me when I laid down in bed, because the chandelier hanging in the center of the room DID blind me! So I ordered another of these dimmer switches, and installed it myself in a few minutes. PROBLEM SOLVED. Now I can dim the chandelier!Just be aware that not all LED bulbs are dimmable. The bulbs in my chandelier act up every now and then, flickering unpleasantly for about a minute. But then they stop. I will probably replace them sometime, but right now it's not enough of an annoyance.The bulbs in my dining fixture dim just fine, no problems. Since I didn't have dimmers when I purchased the bulbs, I didn't pay any attention to whether they're dimmable, but I will be paying attention to that from now on!

My husband was able to install this in 10 mins or less. Works like a dream. Very smooth, no complications when installing. He’s not a professional either.

Both Amazon and the packaging fail to warn of a serious flaw!I am a retired Electrical Engineer with decades of experience wiring just about anything.After my wife went into a nursing home, I downsized and moved into a one room efficiency apartment. Because the kitchenette is in the room, the lighting is bright, which interferes with the wall-mounted TV picture.A dimmer would fix the problem, so I ordered this GE because it does not require a neutral wire (the white one). It is common for there to be no neutral because of the way most overhead lighting is wired.Installation was quick and easy, requiring nothing more than a screwdriver.So that evening I sat down to enjoy a few hours of TV before bedtime, only to find the dimmer won't dim all the way to zero as it used to in houses I had wired. I know this brand and model did just fine in houses I wired a decade ago before retirement, so what has gone wrong?In fact, it doesn't even dim enough for proper TV viewing, so I must replace it.But I fear the next brand I buy won't be any better, and I think I know why.LED lighting draws less than 1/10th the wattage of an incandescent bulb. Even though my overhead fixture is equipped with three, 100 watt equivalent bulbs, they aren't enough of a load for the dimmer to react properly.These dimmers are great, retro dimmers with the large, round knob used to set the light level. Then, just a push of the knob turns the lights on or off. There is no need to replace the existing faceplate and the dimmer comes with a variety of colored knobs, one of which will match any standard faceplate color, old or new.Now, if I can just find a dimmer made for dimmable LED bulbs, I'll be a happy camper!

Awesome

I really enjoy being able to dim all the LED lights around my house. They need to be bright - some of the time - but at other times this can be excessive. These dimmers are very easy to install, and work perfectly (provided that all the LEDs in any one fixture are dimmable, ideally of the same type). I specially like the push-push on-off switch, because people using my older slider dimmers sometimes just slid them down to a very low low, not completely off. The only thing that baffles me is that the dimmers, when shaken, sound s if there are a whole lot of loose bits and pieces inside. That doesn't seem to affect their functioning, but we'll have to see how long they last.

Simple to install and is working really well! My wife hated how bright our bathroom was in the vending, with a chandelier with 4 light bulbs in even 40W made it feel like the sun was gonna burn your eyes out. Finally got this thing installed and now we don’t get blinded by the light :)

Replacing a wall switch with a dimmer should be a ten-minute job at worst. Mine took much, much longer.The first issue was the push-a-stripped-wire-into-the-hole connections just wouldn't work. Whatever was supposed to grip the wire wasn't making contact -- nothing would grab the wire. A design flaw? A production defect? Hard to say.So I had to make all my connections using the screw terminals. It would have been easy if the screws would have screwed out far enough. It also might have helped if those screws would have stayed in place instead of flopping in and out while I tried to fish the wires under them.It was simply hard and frustrating trying to make those connections. I spent a lot of time running into the basement and the garage hunting up tools. It turned that 10-minute job into something more like a half-hour.The good news is that once I had those connections the dimmer worked perfectly first time. My experience with such devices is they are very reliable. I have never had one fail. So with luck I won't ever have to mess with this one again.