Originally Posted By: Dignan
Although, most of ours are dimmed most of the time they're on, so there's a little savings there.
How does a dimmer work? With my minute knowledge of electrical stuff, I imagine (almost certainly incorrectly) that a dimmer is a big resistor that dissipates as heat the energy that would otherwise make the light brighter, so there would be no net savings.

So... how do dimmers really work?

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