Dimmer Help Needed!

[Burgerkong]

I need to make a LED lightbulb dimming tester and was planning to do the following:

1) Buy a 8 circuit subpanel and populate with breakers (one per dimmer circuit)
2) Hook up dimmers to CB's
3) Wire up dimmers to lightbulb socket

What I'm concerned about is if I literally wirenutted all of the load wires coming out of the dimmers together along with the neutrals, would having only one dimmer energize backfeed voltage into the others? How can I isolate the simmers from each other, yet allow me to control them all individually without resorting to adding another bank of disconnects?

Or will the dimmer's circuitry sense that something isn't right since power is coming from the load wires instead of the hot wires and not complete the circuit?

 

[rockwithjason]

why would you splice the outputs of the dimmers? that totally defeats the purpose.

 

[Burgerkong]

why would you splice the outputs of the dimmers? that totally defeats the purpose.

I need to do some testing on a variety of dimmers for a variety of bulbs, they're not actually going in my house, this is a side project lol.

 

[ard]

draw a diagram, take a picture with your phone..FAR better than word-slaw.

FYI: each of YOUR posts will have a button that says "edit"...very effective. ie 'simmer'

also, consider "line" instead of 'load' in this sentence:

"What I'm concerned about is if I literally wirenutted all of the load wires coming out of the dimmers together along with the neutrals,"

Maybe you mean line?

 

[wyliesdiesels]

I need to make a LED lightbulb dimming tester and was planning to do the following:

1) Buy a 8 circuit subpanel and populate with breakers (one per dimmer circuit)
2) Hook up dimmers to CB's
3) Wire up dimmers to lightbulb socket

What I'm concerned about is if I literally wirenutted all of the load wires coming out of the dimmers together along with the neutrals, would having only one dimmer energize backfeed voltage into the others? How can I isolate the simmers from each other, yet allow me to control them all individually without resorting to adding another bank of disconnects?

Or will the dimmer's circuitry sense that something isn't right since power is coming from the load wires instead of the hot wires and not complete the circuit?

If u wire nutted all the load wires of the dimmers together u will have a line to line short since u will have 8 breakers half of which will be on the opposite phase.

I cant imagine why u would want to splice all the load wires together. That males no sense.

 

[Mustang51js]

If u wire nutted all the load wires of the dimmers together u will have a line to line short since u will have 8 breakers half of which will be on the opposite phase.

I cant imagine why u would want to splice all the load wires together. That males no sense.

Almost sounds like he want to have one socket,yet multple dimmers to test