Lights flickering when I turn them on, Red dimmer

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#1

I have a red series dimmer switch hooked up to some LEDs with a neutral wire, and when I turn it on the lights flicker really badly for about 2 seconds before staying on. I have the ramp rate and dimming speeds all set to zero, so there shouldn’t be any dimming happening anyway. Also, if I use the SmartThings app to manually set the dimming level, I can put it at any level and I don’t see any problems.

As a side note, the LEDs stay on a tiny bit even when the switch is off.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

#2

I’ll assume you set the switch parameters 21 to neutral and parameters 22 to load only (or 3-way if multiway switch).

#3

Yes I did

#4

Try setting the max dim level lower (param 6). How many leds? Did you try a bypass?

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#5

It’s just two lights, but each light has like 20 LEDs in it. I just tried changing the min and max dim levels to a few different values and none of it helped.

#6

I’d try some incandescent bulbs or different LEDs, but you may need to install the aeotec bypass.

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#7

@brennen did you ever solve this? I am having similar issues.

#8

I don’t believe @brennen is using smart bulbs so your issue is a bit different.