INCANDESCANT LOADS AND DIMMER failure!!

Can any one advise regarding protecting 1 amp dimmers from potential short outs when 240v incandescant globes blow.

Is there a high risk of dimmer damage from this occurrance, sorry i ask this question as i have a job we are on and it has mostly chandeliers and candelabras through out. As you would be aware these types of lamps have a some what shorter life span than others and lamps blowing will be quite common.
I am aware these are now an obselete item however my client has a stock pile of globes so will be right for the next few years

checking the forum of past it seems even fuses/mcbs on the output side are of not much use(?)
i guess also my question is that if the risk of dimmer damage is quite high why are they rated for incandescent loads at all if globe failure can cause dimmer failure?

Finally are the new universal 2.5 amp dimmers which have a thermal protection rated better for this.

Any help or experience in this arena would be greatly recieved

regards

boc

 

Hi we had a similar issue years ago. The problem we had and I dont know if your installation is the same is our incandescent lights were mounted upside down with the base of the lamp pointing down. What then happened was when a globe sometimes blew the filament would fall to the bottom of the lamp accross what was left of the filament. This would then be a higher resistance of the original lamp and could blow the channel. Our problem was solved quite easily as the building manager was trying to make the building more energy efficient and these were some of the lights he de commissioned.
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