CATA box cooker hood, Designair – Are dimmable LED spots OK?

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Just fitted a CATA Designair 70cm box hood which has GU10 type spot bulbs – the touch control fades them up to fully on and down to off.

Wondered if it is OK to fit dimmable LED spots instead?

Realise that dimmable LEDs may need a special dimmer circuit, so don’t want to buy them if they could damage the existing hood circuitry?

Thanks in advance..
Colin

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Re: CATA box cooker hood, Designair – Are dimmable LED spots

Hi

It will void your warranty on the hood assembly.

Bryan

[kwatt]

Re: CATA box cooker hood, Designair – Are dimmable LED spots

And they may well not work.

Dimmable LEDs are notoriously fickle and I can first hand tell that is true and they can and do interfere with electronics.

Non-dimmable one’s aren’t a whole cheap better at times either.

Then there’s the warranty issue as Bryan says.

K.

[corkee]

Re: CATA box cooker hood, Designair – Are dimmable LED spots

Sounds like a no-no for now then.
Maybe sometime in the future, they’ll invent one that is a direct replacement for quartz or tungsten bulbs, until then, I’ll leave well alone.

Thanks for your advice
Col

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