Cloudy Bay in Wall Dimmer Switch for LED Light/CFL/Incandescent,3-Way Single Pole Dimmable Slide,600 Watt max,Cover Plate Included

Cheaper and probably better than our hardware stores.

This is really exactly what I was looking for. I just bought a house and it has upwards of 50 hi-hat lights - all incandescent. We swapped every one of them for 75w equivalent LED dimmable retrofit hi-hats. In some rooms it's just too much, but the dimmers make everything perfect. I started by buying a two pack of these dimmers as some of the reviews indicated flickering, etc. so I wanted to be sure before buying a bunch. The two switches worked perfectly, so I then bought another 10 pack. These are less than half the price of anything I can buy locally, and work better than any dimmer I've used (though I haven't used a huge amount). What sets this one apart, is the minimum light control wheel on these - and it's likely the cause of "problems" I read about in other reviews. You use this wheel before putting the faceplate on - i.e. set it, and forget it. What it does is sets the power for the minimum light when the dimmer is all the way down, but not off. You do have to play with it a little to get it right (but believe me, it's simple). What you'll find is that if you drop the light until its barely on, and throw the switch - sometimes when it you switch it back on, there's not enough power to turn the light on to the minimum setting. This wheel lets you increase the power a tiny bit until you find that point where the light will always light on the minimum setting. I think this is where some reviewers might be going wrong is that they don't set this properly at installation, and then they have too little power on the minimum setting and it may not always be on when all the way down. My other dimmers have mixed results some are on, some are off on when technically on - but turned all the way down. I love the fact that this lets you set the default minimum position, which I do set to on - but at the lowest setting that it will consistently illuminate. When you set this wheel, make sure you click the switch on and off a few times to make sure it will come back on consistently. If it doesn't, just slide the wheel a bit and you should have a good outcome. I also love that these come with a screw-less faceplate. My only issue is that most of my dimmers are in gang boxes so I couldn't use them :(I'm using these mainly with 6" Fein Retrofit 75W LED hi-hats from Costco.

The switches are simple and elegant. Installation was straightforward, but I did have to connect the other red wire so that the open position is when the lower part is pressed down. This is slightly easier for operating the slider, although it is not a big deal.However, the said included screws for securing the inner plate were missing. Hope the seller will mail the screws to me (4 screws in total as I bought 2 units), otherwise I will have to hopefully get them from the local stores.Update: Contacted seller for the missing screws. Seller offered partial refund but I did not take it. Tried to look for compatible screws in Lowe's with no luck. However, I was able to find some old switch covers and used screws from them. Troublesome but in the end the dimmer switches are working fine.At first a switch was used to control two 100W replacement LED lights but it did not work very well. I was able to adjust to make the dimmer work nicely, but the lights wouldn't turn on unless the dimmer was in the max position. It was really frustrating as reported in some other reviews. Later two 60W replacement LED lights were used and everything worked fine since then.I may purchase a third one to control the five LED lights (60W replacement) in my bedroom if I can find a reasonable switch for the ceiling fan. Lutron is another option but their reviews do not look much better either.

Fast shipment. Reasonable Price. Works well Thank you.

I selected this switch because I liked the sleek and modern look of it .The old dimmer switch I had could not dim LED bulbs. Also my old switch was the round push-on type and it was necessary to reset the dimmer each time the light went on. Before I ordered the new switch I took apart my old one, just to see what I had inside the wall. My house is 60 years old and a previous owner had made a number of changes, some of which I appreciate (and some are kind of strange.) For instance, there are two breaker panels in this rather small house, one of them clearly newer than the other. So I checked out the old switch and saw that it was the old-fashioned two-wires-wrapped-around-two-screws type . I've replaced those before. There are pretty clear wiring instruction included .The new switch has a ground wire, which my old switch didn't. And the new switch came with wire nuts, which I'd never used before. I went online and watched a wire nut tutorial . Man, those things are brilliant. You, dear reader, may know all about wire nuts, and take them for granted , but I am kind of thrilled by the beauty of this deceptively simple idea.So, not wanting to die because of overconfidence, I turned off all the breakers on both breaker panels. I brought an LED lantern with me so I could see what I was doing.Since there was no ground wire in my wall I followed instructions and taped that newfangled ground wire on the switch to the metal box in the wall. Another thing I liked about the new switch is that the wires were all prepped, the wire sleeve having been cut but left in place on all of them.No need to strip wires-or even to have a wire stripper. One wire had a prominent tag on it which said that if that wire was not needed to leave the sleeve on. I did not need that wire and I left the sleeve on. This made it unnecessary for me to cover what would have been bare wire with electrical tape.About those clever little wire nuts: One of the existing wires in the wall had a much longer stripped part than the (new) switch wires had. At first attempt the wire nut trick wasn't working on this set of wires. Then I remembered that the stripped parts of the two wires I was joining were supposed to be the same length. So I trimmed the longer wire and tried it again and this time it worked beautifully.Again following the instructions I turned on the power and tested the new switch to see that it dimmedproperly before closing everything up. It did, so that was it. The installation was fairly quick , only took a few minutes really .Very happy with the new switch and all that was provided.