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Xpost w/ lighting: problems with dimmer switch

Has anyone experienced difficulties with using a dimmer switch for your ceiling LED lights?

I put in 5 of the Sylvania retrofit LEDs, 13 watts each, all wired to one switch. With an ordinary toggle wall switch, no problems, come on immediately and every time.

But I switched that out to a Lutron "Toggler for LED" dimmer switch. At first there was just an annoying delay in the lights coming on, then as time went on it was less and less reliable until it would work only about 5% of the time -- or less. Today we tried a different unit, thinking the 1st was defective: no difference. Put a standard switch back in, and again, works perfectly.

Any idea what is the problem? Is there any dimmer that I can use? (I had picked the "Toggler" version just because I like that look best -- I hate the look of other dimmer switches)

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