Hi!I'm a journeyman electrician, and I've seen/replaced a'plenty dimmer switches which have shorted out, worn out, smoked, etc. - My experience is that the slide-switch goes out more rapidly than the rheostat-turning dial one. My teachers in Israel said that it's best to turn the dimmer switch down, then off, for the dial-switch, but at that time there was no slide dimmer-switch. Here, in my apprenticeship I never heard mention of the problem, but I replaced lots of them during this apprenticeship, too.What's your take on slide vs rotor switches, and is there a more safe way for turning them off? Is there a liquid switch for dimming which is safer and less likely to burn up?Thanks for whatever advice and information you can give me! Sincerely

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I have not heard of problems like that with slide or rotary DIMMER CONTROLS.  Most dimmer switch failures occur due to exceeding the capacity of the dimmer, not matching the load to the type of dimmer or overheating due to failure to DERATE DIMMERS when ganged with others.

LUTRON DIMMER SWITCHES are some of the finest dimmer controls on the market.  They make devices for just about every application and load type.

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