Re: Does any wall dimmer have overload protection?

["D&SW" <d&sw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter
I don't think anyone really answered your question. The easy answer is NO.
Even if you went to a 1000 watt dimmer, the starting surge of a vacuum would
likely blow the triac in the dimmer. And as other posters have noted dimmers
only play nice with incandescent bulbs. Maybe you should simply put a label
on the outlet so the housekeeper won't plug the Dyson in those outlets.

"peter" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a remote wall switch that controls an outlet that I plug a lamp
>into. This allows me to turn on/off the lamp from a remote and from the
>wall switch.
>
> Currently, this wall swtich is x10. Based on past experience, if I
> accidently plug in a vacuum cleaner into the switched outlet (there are
> two in this room), it would fry the dimmer.
>
> I'm about to replace this wall dimmer with an insteon or z-wave based
> dimmer. Do any of these offer better protection against overload (vacuum
> cleaner, hair dryer, etc)?
>