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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 300336" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>Top tip #1: avoid downlighters. they are the most energy inefficient lighting known to man. Never fit them to your own house, only fit them begrudgingly if the customer insists.</p><p></p><p>Top tip #2: Avoid 12V downlighters. If you must fit downlighters, fit GU10 mains voltage lights. Adding several transformers to run 12V lights just adds work, adds complexity, adds cost and adds unreliability. Either the transformers will fail, or the piddly little light connectors used on 12V downlights will fail. Far better to use mains voltage where you don't have the cost or unreliability of the transformers, and you have much more substantial and much more reliable light connectors.</p><p></p><p>About the only reason for using 12V is the shower fan lights and that's only because I have not yet found a mains version of them (no technical reason why someone could not make a mains version but I have yet to find one)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 300336, member: 6969"] Top tip #1: avoid downlighters. they are the most energy inefficient lighting known to man. Never fit them to your own house, only fit them begrudgingly if the customer insists. Top tip #2: Avoid 12V downlighters. If you must fit downlighters, fit GU10 mains voltage lights. Adding several transformers to run 12V lights just adds work, adds complexity, adds cost and adds unreliability. Either the transformers will fail, or the piddly little light connectors used on 12V downlights will fail. Far better to use mains voltage where you don't have the cost or unreliability of the transformers, and you have much more substantial and much more reliable light connectors. About the only reason for using 12V is the shower fan lights and that's only because I have not yet found a mains version of them (no technical reason why someone could not make a mains version but I have yet to find one) [/QUOTE]
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