Hi
I have been using an Aeon Labs nano dimmer g5 for a while, and it controls 6 halogen spots with dimming. It works good, had a lot of setup trouble but it was mostly due to my newbee level.
Now, after a while a noticed that the power consumption when the lights are dimmed off is very high, in HA it is reported to be ~70W. When I turn on the lamps it is reported to be ~10W
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can investigate this, or even knows whats happening?
BR,
Tomas
The 70W consumption is probably bogus. 70W is a lot of power and if the lights are not actually on the only where that energy (the 70W) could go to is heat. And 70W will set your Aeon dimmer on fire in a matter of minutes.
So my best guess is that the Aeon device is bad at measuring power when the lights are off and just returns bogus values.
Additionally, 10W for 6 halogen spots doesn’t seem correct either. A basic halogen spot is generally about 25W. So 6 times that would be around 150W. 10W for 6 halogen lights doesn’t make sense
I run 5 off led gu10’s from a fibaro dimmer.
At the nominal brightness (this this time of day) they are taking 8.1W
(they are 3W units and they run at 20% at this time)
So it doesn’t seem a million miles off.
The off value states 0.6W