LED lighting

[Irving]

Thank you 00tec, I hooked up the relay to one of my doors tonight. Everything works great and I like the positive click of the relay.

Had to run a wire from NC to 85.

As asmo pointed out in post #2, power supply is important. I figured I didn't need much and only went with a 30v and like he said, you can easily see the difference from one end to the next. Look at the picture in post #15 and you can see the left is darker. For this coat closet it doesn't matter, but for anyone doing a more visible project, definitely run the numbers on your power supply. Thanks everyone. The 3-way with a dimmer will go in sometime this week, hopefully tomorrow.

[Irving]

Okay, for LED lights like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (and the Hampton Bay equivalent sold at Home Depot) they require a 0-10v dimmer switch. If you look at the pictures in the link, on the back of the fixture you can see the regular black/white/ground wires, with an additional grey and purple wire. These are the wires for the dimmer. The guys at Home Depot told me to just cap off those wires and use a regular LED dimmer switch. I don't think that will work, so plan on returning the dimmer I bought this morning.

Now, in addition to needing a 0-10v LED dimmer, I also need one that is 3-way, which makes it considerably more difficult to find. The closest I could find on Amazon was this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
which is stupid expensive for a switch. It's not the style I want, but the only correct dimmer in white, which is unfortunately a bigger deal than the style of the dimmer. I applied for the Amazon cash-back card (which I was planning on doing anyway) to get an instant $70 off, so I could get this dumb switch for free.

On the bright side, now I get to get back up into my freshly insulated attic and tramp all over again to run even more wires. The fun never ends.