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so the heat generated by my old haolgen bulbs that added some warmth to the room will now need to be replaced with an alternative energy source. more gas used by the boiler or an electric heater in the room?
Or rather, LEDs dim just fine but the cheap built-in driver circuits don't. At least, not 230V ones using phase-angle control, which is not surprising as it is fundamentally the wrong technology for the job. What we actually need is a re-structure of lighting circuits to run at say 24 or 48V DC, with HF PWM dimmers as standard instead of 50Hz.
No more heating the lunchtime pies on an upturned 1000W floodlight
But also, no more burning fingers on replacing a lamp if you didn’t turn the power off!
I was still an apprentice!
Up a ladder, had the tube in a bit of paper as instructed. Slotted it in, and the bit of paper burst into flames
I was still an apprentice!
Up a ladder, had the tube in a bit of paper as instructed. Slotted it in, and the bit of paper burst into flames
That is like the joke about asking the village idiot for instructions and, after some thinking, he says "Well, if I were you, I wouldn't be starting from here".
We have 230V lights and phase-angle dimmers, but nobody seems to have put much effort in to making the LED driver circuit react well to them. Better systems do exist, but I suspect it will be very long before many houses have anything new.
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Want to add several thousand 30W MR16s to that stash?
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nicebutdim
Leftovers from a sizeable clearance a few years back. They still sell well enough, but MR16s were never going to move as quickly as more common lamps.
thought yous was still on gas lighting down in Devon.
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