LED lights need their own special electronic dimmer switch to have a fully functioning and dimming light. A standard dimmer switch cannot be used with an LED light as you will never be able to dim the LED light either completely or not very well. A standard linear-style dimmer can damage LED lights because it is designed to dim incandescent lights. Lower wattage LEDs will have a shorter life span if used on an incandescent dimmer. If you dim a standard bulb such as halogen and the light intensity is reduced to 50% via dimming then the halogen bulb will give almost no light output, however if you do the same with an LED bulb the LED light will give 50% of its light capacity at its fullest. If you try to dim LEDs with an incandescent dimmer, they get very heated and could catch fire, or the bulbs may explode. Existing dimmer switches often have a minimum power of 50W, but because LED lights tend to have lower wattages than the standard bulb when a bulb is connect to that dimmer switch it will not reach the minimum power required and would usually confuse the dimmer switch and the lights start to flicker, make buzzing noise or overheat. People often assume that they can use their normal and ordinary dimmer switch for LED lights, however this is not possible in many cases.
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