Armacost Lighting 511121 Remote Touch Dimmer and On/Off Switch, White

Purchased this to control a few strands of Led Lights for a Lack enclosure for a Prusa MK3S+ printer. This works out great for the touch control of on/off & brightness. It remembers the brightness before being shut off. A long press on will start at lowest brightness which is nice for starting it up in real dark situations or to control initial on brightness.

I purchased 2 of these and couldn't get them to totally dim the LED strip off.. then I realized that you have to dim it totally down, then TAP THE METAL A SECOND TIME, and they go off! knowing this(probably in the instructions I didn't finish reading) these turn out to be the best background headboard lighting that I have found!

This unit "sort of" worked for my application. On the shop bench, I could get it to work as designed. However, embedded under an inset shelf (inset into a sheetrock wall between studs), it was just erratic, randomly turning on/off for no apparent reason. Perhaps there were other factors like power wires too close to it, but that wasn't something I could control. I ended up going with a push button switch hidden inset underneath the shelf.

Not the most sensitive if you have dry skin. The connection at the sensor disk is simply maintained by sticky tape (hope it lasts). Wish the lead wire was a bit longer for more mounting options without splicing more wire. Low cost solution, though!

I am a custom furniture maker and wanted to add LED's with a sneaky touch dimmer into a hutch that I was building for someone by using the brass hinges on the hutch as a touch dimmer switch. First off, I bought WHITE armacost puck LED's and learned that these are not dimmable and only the stainless steel puck lights were the dimmable option. Needless to say this dimmer module did not work with the WHITE Armacost puck LED lights, and I confirmed the lights/wiring was not done incorrectly by bypassing the dimmer module and going straight to the power supply to see that everything turned on as it should. Second attempt was with the dimmable puck LED's that were stainless. These worked when I first wired them up, then when I unplugged the power and plugged it back in moments later for another test, nothing worked. I came back to it the next day and they worked again... weird. I wired the touch sensor wire to a solid brass hinge and again it worked, but upon unplugging the power source and plugging it in again, nothing worked once more. I went ahead and ordered a new touch dimmer module to see if I had received a lemon. When the new module arrived, I wired it up and it worked. Same thing as before, I connected the sensor wire to a brass hinge and installed it into my hutch. Everything worked as it should in my shop. Once I delivered the hutch to my customer, the module stopped working again! After a week of trying to unplug it and plug it back in and test the wiring, I confirmed that the faultiness was from the dimmer module. I emailed Armacost tech support for help and here is their response: "The touch dimmer will not work at all with any of our puck lights. it has to do with the capacitance of the puck lights." When I asked for a recommendation for other puck lights their module would work with I got this response: "We have not tested the touch dimmer with any other vendors lights so I am unable to give you that answer. I do know the touch dimmer does work with our tape lighting." So I gave it everything I had to make these work, but they simply don't. I am going to have to find another way to dim these puck lights I already have installed in the hutch I made for this client.

I used these for closet light touch switches. We leave the LEDs on bright, but it's nice to have the option to dim them...pretty good range too. Works to connect to any metal to make touch on/off/dim.

Works like a champ decided to attach the wire to a hinge on a curio cabinet rather than the disk that comes with it awesome

After trying 3, yes Three, dimmers that don't work I give up. Here is what I think happened. Try #1 and #2 seemed to work on bench test. However, the connections were troublesome - I now suspect this is due to the solid wire I was using not seating well in this particular connector despite it being tight, it is not a good connector. I also suspect that the dimmer is very sensitive to loose connections and they both failed due to this. Thinking I know the problem I ordered number 3 (thanks Amazon returns). This one came in DOA. I was VERY careful with connections, used stranded wire, tested continuity prior to plugging it in, and it didn't even blink. It looks good, just doesn't do the dimming thing. All the components are from the same manufacturer.

This product worked for about 2 weeks then failed. Even when it worked it was finicky. Typically took several touches for the system to register a touch and it would never do as expected. A single touch to turn on or off would dim partial and then system would become unresponsive for several seconds. Really poor quality. Stay way

Great little unit

I don’t what to like or dislike, cause I received an empty box. Please let me know what to do with it. I know I can return it, but what about time and effort I have to take it to the ups store by this weather and reschedule a second trip to customers house.

Wow, you need an electrician to cut the cord on your lamp and install it in the box. The touch sensor is thinner than a coin.