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Mar 02, 2016 - 02:24 AM
You can use the Dimmer 2 with any standard toggle or momentary (retractive) switch. But you cannot use it with switches that require power - electronic switches or ones with an indicator LED/Neon. This is because the switch is wired to input terminals on the Dimmer - these are inputs and cannot provide a power source to an external switch. Also, having a switch with an indicator LED would not really make sense as it would easily go out of sync with the Dimmer's actual state - if it were on and you turned the dimmer off via Z-Wave the external switch would still be indicating the dimmer to be on.
More information about using the Dimmer 2 with various switches is in this guide - http://www.vesternet.com/resources/ap...
More information about using the Dimmer 2 with various switches is in this guide - http://www.vesternet.com/resources/ap...
Jan 22, 2018 - 05:12 PM
You can use touch / glass switches (I used mine with Retrotouch Crystal Pulse switch). The only requirement (as Mark mentioned) - you need to power both devices (L+N) - or at least switch with L+N and dimmer with L.
In my configuration: Live to dimmer and switch; Neutral to dimmer and switch; Out/Load from dimmer to lamp, and two connections between dimmer and switch: Sx (Fibaro) to LiveIN (switch) and S1/2 (Fibaro) to L1 OUT (switch).
Yes, it can go out of sync. And my 3-gang switch does not 100% with 3 dimmers (very odd thing but it seems like 1 gang affects dimmers connecter also to G2 and G3). But it works fine with single gang / dimmer.
In my configuration: Live to dimmer and switch; Neutral to dimmer and switch; Out/Load from dimmer to lamp, and two connections between dimmer and switch: Sx (Fibaro) to LiveIN (switch) and S1/2 (Fibaro) to L1 OUT (switch).
Yes, it can go out of sync. And my 3-gang switch does not 100% with 3 dimmers (very odd thing but it seems like 1 gang affects dimmers connecter also to G2 and G3). But it works fine with single gang / dimmer.
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