wireless with LEDS

just did a job with 1 channel relay switch saturn wireless
got it setup on the wired network no problem
but in the off condition the leds are at half brightness
measured at 110 volts.
on is full brightness

the wattage of the fancy lights i believe to be less than
20 watts

could this cause a faulty condition?

richard

thanx to mark for resetting my password

 

The LED indicators on the buttons on the unit are at full brightness when the channel is turned on and they glow very dimly when the channel is off. This is so that you can find the unit in the dark. Is this what you are seeing?

Or...

Are you saying that the LED lighting fixtures connected to the load terminals of the unit are still glowing when the relay unit has turned them off? If this is the case then it's almost certainly the minimum load rating of the unit.

Wireless units are "2-wire" devices which means they have no Neutral wire connection, just like normal light switches. Unlike normal light switches, they need constant power. To get this power they trickle a very small amount of power through the load on channel 1. This can make things like LED lighting fixtures turn on a bit. To solve this problem, either increase the minimum load or fit a bypass capacitor across the input terminals of your LED fixture. Such a capacitor needs to be about 1uF and X2 rated.

 

leds

yeah thanx for that .

its a fancy chandelier thingy with tiny leds all over it but very very dim
like christmas lights.

it makes sense that the tiny current at "off" is still enough to power it

were going to try a 2 uF cap from a ceiling fan in series in the neutral


richard

 

Connecting a cap in series with the load won't do anything to help. You need to put the capacitor in parallel with the fitting so that the tiny bleed current can bypass the LED fitting and travel through the capacitor.

 

yeah you're right
done the job now with cap in parallel and leds dont turn on.