Now can I dim up the lights smoothly ?

Now can I dim up the lights smoothly ?
With many cheap dimmers, the lights "Pop On" rather than dim up smoothly. This problem is usually related to the construction of the dimmer electronics. One technique used in some cheap dimmers to allow dimming up smoothly is to place another potentiometer (trimmer) across the control potentiometer. That trimmer potentiometer is set so that the dimmer works smoothly:
a)Set "Control" to Minimum light level.
b)Adjust "Trimmer" to filaments JUST "glow"
c)Turn off dimmer
d)Turn on dimmer to see if filaments "glow". IF not... set trimmer up a snit.... go to c) Continue until minimum voltage/current is supplied to lamps (filaments do not seem to glow at all). When everything is properly adjusted, the dimmer circuit will nicely dim up from the lowest setting up to maximum brightness.