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A dimmer switch is a device which allows for the adjustment of power supplied to one or more electric lights. In some rare cases, they are also used for other electric devices, but in many cases doing so would harm the device, so this is rare.

Types

Variable resistor

The first kind of dimmer switch made use of a variable resistor.

Autotransformer dimmer

(Variac)

Solid-state

(aka semiconductor)

Rheostat dimmer?

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