Adding a remote control dimmer to your awning LED lights

[moallen]

I decided to open up the inside wall switch on the off chance both light wires came to the switch. I was pleasantly surprised to discover the awning LED strip and the step light both had separate wires connected to the switch. For now I simply moved the step light wire over to the inside ceiling light switch.

All of the switches in that area have pretty good access and quite a bit of room behind them. When I get around to it, I'm going to put a dimmer for the awning LED strip inside there, as well as a separate switch for the step light.

[tslarson]

I have the same yellow light mounted under the steps that turns on with the awning lights. Since I installed the dimmer on the awning lights only, it does not affect the operation of the step light. If I don't want to have the awning lights on, but want the step light on I just turn off the awning lights with the remote control. Both lights still use the same hard wired switch.

[moallen]

Thanks, I've been thinking about doing something about my awning LED lights. The brightness is nice at certain times but way too bright for relaxing outside in the evening - at least without sun glasses!

The regular light under the steps on my 24rls is wired to the same switch. If anything, I would like it to be brighter. It's mounted to the frame and looks like it would be hard to rewire to a separate switch. So, I'm thinking I may leave it wired as is and run my awning lights to a new switch with a dimmer.

[tslarson]

I posted this over on the JOF forums.
http://www.jaycoowners.com/forums/f30/a ... 27671.html