This is slightly off-topic, but I've tried asking in other forums and keep receiving non-relevant answers, hopefully someone in the community here can give me some direction.
I recently renovated my kitchen. During the renovation, I installed a bunch of pot lights. The pot lights are in two "zones", controlled by two in-wall UltraPro Z-Wave Rocker Light Dimmers ( ultrapro-z-wave-in-wall-smart-dimmer-with-quickfit-and-simplewire-white ). Everything works great. However, I also routed some 14/3 romex from one of the UltraPro switches to under my kitchen cabinets. The intention is to put some under-cabinet LED lights there and since they'd be on the same switch as one of the pot light zones, I can control the pot lights and under-counter LED lights at the same time with the same switch.
Here's where I'm running into a problem. I'm trying to find a dimmable LED driver into which I can hardwire my 14/3 romex and then attach an LED strip. The drivers I've found mostly reference TRIAC dimmers, and some have an extra two leads specifically for dimmers.
In order to be compatible with the dimming method in these UltraPro in-wall dimmers, what type of dimmable LED driver am I looking for?
Many of these LED drivers aren't dimmable at all. Or like you found out, they aren't dimmable with conventional dimmers, and they have a separate 0-10V dimmer, which from what I have seen is typically more commercial use, or at the very least would require a bunch of new wiring.
Thank you for the reply. I found a single comment on Amazon reviews that mentions the UltraPro are using TRIAC dimming.
I ordered this dimmable driver which I can hardwire. The listing says they're "compatible with virtually every AC in-wall dimmer, from simple incandescent CL dimmers to Alexa-enabled, Wi-Fi smart dimmers". I will test it out and report back, just in case anyone else is trying to find a similar solution.
I have a couple of these which I use with Jasco (GE/Ultrapro) dimmers. Standard 12 V white LED strips. They do require an external (12 V) power supply.
The diming control was not very good and low levels did the typical blinking. I tried adding additional capacitance on the 12w side and the improvement was small.
In one location I have a zooz zen22 in smart bulb mode and via button controller I can override zen31 but time of day automations are controlling the cabinet lighting 90% of the time.
My kitchen is different. I previously had halogen puck lighting (my wife likes the pucks in the kitchen over LED strips ... happy wife & all that) and I was controlling them with a zen27. When i switched them to LED a couple years ago i went with the 120v pucks from Illume Model # I-K5120PLWH. They are available from HD in Canada. Not sure about other countries.
I agree with you. I've had hit an miss success. At the moment the LTE device I mentioned is working well. It will not go very low but in a bathroom there is no need for super low light levels.
The other issue we live with is the delay on turn-on.
They do make low voltage PWM capable wall "dimmers", however in your case you couldn't share it with your other lights.
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I think I've found a good solution. So far it's working well. I found an "Illume" branded LED driver (photo below), and connected it directly from the UltraPro switch with 14/3 romex. The dimming works well, without flickering. There's a slight (less than a second) delay when turning the switch on, and about a 4 second delay when I turn the switch off. While not great, this is acceptable.
