Re: Does any wall dimmer have overload protection?

[J Miller <reply@here>]

Dimmers should only be installed for switches that control lights, not
outlets.  Regardless of HA abilities or not.

What I've seen done, is to use an X10 wall switch (not dimmer), but then
have a std (non-X10) tabletop dimmer for the lamp..  That way X10 can
turn it on and off, but the lamp can still be dimmed (and the "dim
setting" is remembered)

D&SW wrote:
> 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
> news:oWIKj.12622$lt2.1495@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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)?
>>
>