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Rattlesnake Guy · 06-21-2011, 08:11 PM

I stole this from http://ask.metafilter.com/20346/How-...s-from-buzzing

Your dimmers may be running at close to their rated capacity. (To find this out, try removing some of the bulbs and see if the dimmer gets any quieter.) You need a beefier dimmer, probably, or else split up the lights into two or three banks with separate switches.

Perhaps the dimmers are the (common) triac-based ones? Are you sure the buzzing is coming from the dimmer, or is it coming from the lights? If it's the lights, then it's the current waveform generated by a triac dimmer. You should be able to find autotransformer-based dimmer units, which would be silent.

06-21-2011, 08:11 PM	#4
Rattlesnake Guy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 1,254 Thanks: 423 Thanked 366 Times in 175 Posts	I stole this from http://ask.metafilter.com/20346/How-...s-from-buzzing Your dimmers may be running at close to their rated capacity. (To find this out, try removing some of the bulbs and see if the dimmer gets any quieter.) You need a beefier dimmer, probably, or else split up the lights into two or three banks with separate switches. Perhaps the dimmers are the (common) triac-based ones? Are you sure the buzzing is coming from the dimmer, or is it coming from the lights? If it's the lights, then it's the current waveform generated by a triac dimmer. You should be able to find autotransformer-based dimmer units, which would be silent.