modification of an Elkay configurable dimmer/light switch

Hi All,

I bought a really interesting product from the british company Elkay **broken link removed**

It's a configurable dimmer which can simulate sunrise/sunset at a specific moment and dim the light from 10 min to 4 hours.

I was really excited by the product and I have been really disappointed when I bought it and realise it do not work with low consumption light or LED(recommended for incandescent light bulb up to 400W). I wanted actually to use it with a 19 W dimmable LED ( **broken link removed** ).

It appears that I have 2 problems:

1) the switch let a little bit of electricity throught the circuit when turned off in order to keep the screen on which is more than enought to turn on the light at 50%.
2) the dimming scale of the switch is not synchronized with the bulb. in other words, the 0% of the switch is the 50% of the bulb and the 50% of the switch is the 100% of the bulb.

I have opened the switch and I will post some pictures of the circuits.

It seems doable to me to modify it to make it compatible with my LED bulb. what do you think?

Thanks

Wab

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