LED Garden Lights - Control & Dimming

[H4M24]

Hi All,

I am new to this forum, I have found a lot of really helpful tips, and will be sharing mine in the coming days.

I have currently installed 6 garden LED lights all wired to an outdoor junction box, below is an image of one of them:

These lights are installed on a dusk/dawn daylight sensor.

The issue I am having is they are way too bright, end up lighting all my neighbours gardens. I have bought a dimmer switch but this does not work as the lights end up flickering at low dim setting.

I even bought this device from Amazon:

Still no luck, the buttons on the remote do not do anything apart from changing the colour from White to Warm and vice versa....

please if anyone has any experience with LED's what would be the components I need to make this dimmable? The LED lights themselves are dimmable and seems to be an LED strip wrapped around.

Thanks.

 

[ericmark]

The driver for the LED lamp will have a capacitor to smooth out the output, the driver may be built into the lamp, or external, but all LED's need a driver as they are current controlled, and our supply is voltage controlled. Getting any external control to dim LED's it needs to talk to the driver and tell it what to do. Some dimmer units work better than others, but since the smoothing capacitor has to be on the DC supply, most of it is down to the lamps used.

I have dusk and dawn setting on my smart switches, and I have also timers which can be set, so dusk to 10 pm, and 7 am to dawn is what I set it to do, once dawn is before 7 am have to turn dawn setting off.

It depends on how the driver works, but putting two in series may work.

My dimming lamps are smart lamps, so all the dimming stuff is built into the lamps, I can set it to dim, or colour change, set it to green for Halloween, colour changing for Christmas, set to around 20% as too bright reflects on reversing camera of car. Only downside, any power out, and it auto turns on.

 

[Murdochcat]

Are the lights you bought actually dimmable ?

 

[Taylortwocities]

Are the lights you bought actually dimmable ?

The LED lights themselves are dimmable

I doubt that the Amazon thing will do anything for you. It looks like its output is DC, and your LED lights are probably AC.
Please provide a link to the actual lights.

 

[H4M24]

Ok so I bought these off Temu, I know not exactly the place to buy electrical items. I was actually impressed with the quality, they were solid bits of kit, within the wiring it had a 2 red and black wires fed into a small hub and two cable out the other end (N | L ) I assume the hub is the capacitor as the seller said it allows AC voltage input 85v to 265v. I wish I took a picture of them but I already fixed to the posts and did a silicone sealant around the edge.

Anyway I think I ericmark may have just answered it, it sounds like if I'm not mistaken, I need an LED driver that converts AC to DC 24v then wire a Dimmer in between the AC to DC driver and the lighting wiring?.....

 

[H4M24]

I doubt that the Amazon thing will do anything for you. It looks like its output is DC, and your LED lights are probably AC.
Please provide a link to the actual lights.

If that is the case how would I go about controlling the LED via AC? All the research I have done referred to LED lights being converted to DC first.

Link: https://share.temu.com/5o8h2xbHpVA

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

Those were not designed to be used outside. You should probably stop using them.

 

[Taylortwocities]

I have done referred to LED lights being converted to DC first

But look. You said

seller said it allows AC voltage input 85v to 265v

So stop all this stiff about converting to DC. Its an AC powered device. It will work on an AC supply 85v to 265v,
Go buy a good mains LED dimmer, Like the Varilight Pro and it should work if the units are TRULY dimmerable.

But in any case, I agree with DetLef

Those were not designed to be used outside. You should probably stop using them.

Or Time to use the returns feature!