Found out most dimmer switches won't work with LED tape lights the hard way

I put in 6 dimmers on a kitchen remodel last month before realizing the Lutron ones I grabbed are only rated for 150W of LED, and my tape runs were pushing 200W each. Has anybody else had to swap out dimmers mid-job because the specs didn't match the load?

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robin4893mo ago

Yeah I read somewhere those Lutron ratings are way conservative for LED stuff.

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miles2773mo ago

That 150W rating on Lutron dimmers is usually for the whole circuit, not per switch. I've run four separate 100W tape runs off a single 600W RA2 dimmer in my own basement with zero issues. You might actually be overcomplicating things by splitting everything into six different dimmers. A single high-load dimmer with a power booster or repeater would handle your 200W runs fine if you wired it right. The specs are conservative for a reason, and Lutron especially builds in a lot of headroom you're not accounting for.

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