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Slightly out of the ordinary, but I'm looking to replacing between 60 to 100 standard size E27 bulbs with LED equivalent.
The catch is the LED must run at 90v, rather than 230v.
"Why?" you ask, these bulbs are used in heritage diesel-electric pulled coaches and we're looking to 1)...
Hi, want to installed some LED strips in the ceiling and wanted to know how the recessed LED profile is fixed in place and stop the plasterboard from cracking or sagging when it is running parrallel to the ceiling joists. Has anyone done this?
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our dimmer switch stopped working after 7 years so went to replace it at the weekend. When I opened it up, the black wire was in the common slot and the red wire was in L1 which i thought odd because i thought it needed to be the other way around. Anyway as it had worked for so long that way...
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I’m after some advice please. I’m installing some LED profile around a customers bedroom ceiling for some led strip to sit in and diffuser on top obviously. My question is how do people hide the driver? In ceiling void and drop in through back of driver? But most are plug top...
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I am restoring an old art deco, wall mount medicine cabinet. The cabinet has an 18” fluorescent light tube on each side. Before I put a lot of money into restoring this (mostly chroming parts) I want to make sure I can get lights for it, preferably LEDs, and need to know what I should...
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I currently have 4 led bulbs in the bathroom and 3 of them arent working. The bulbs that are currently in are
LOMAS LED GU10 220-240V 6000k 6w Not-Dim. I cant find any 6w online would it be okay to fit a 4.6w? Also the bulb doesnt say what colour they are what would they be? Or should i just...
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we are replacing light fittings in our home. Im confident with the fitting aspect, but have run into doubt in making the right choice of fitting.The one we like says it recommends G9 Halogen bulbs
Buy Clear Drizzle 3 Light Flush Ceiling Light from the Next UK online shop -...
I'm looking for an LED spotlight that can be mounted on an existing lighting column. The aim is to illuminate a war memorial that is 20m away.
Any recommendations on where or what I should be looking at?
Hi all, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Went to do some work at a factory unit on Monday ( changed 20 florries to LED battens and changed 20 400w metal halide to 150w LED high bays). The florries were fed from different circuits and different DB’s and the high bays were fed of one DB...
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I've been changing the halogen downlighters in my house to LED's. I have three rooms that use dimmers, two of them have two switches each to control the lights, all rocker type dimmer switches. I've had no issue replacing the dimmer modules in the rooms with multiple switches as they are...
Hello all- I hope this is the right place to ask this question. A few weeks ago the LED lights in the kitchen started flickering intermittently, mostly when first turned on in the morning. I changed the light switches in case of dimmer compatibility problem but flickering continued and also...
I have a led panel that i want to dim. It is dimmable but without a dimmable driver.
I have a dimmer module and a dimmer switch as shown in the foto.
Can anyone sketch me a diagram on how to wire the bits together.
Thanks.
Hi everyone.
I should start by saying I'm not sure I'm in the right place here (this isn't a householder issue - I'm making a Ghostbusters backpack for my son!), and that I have no knowledge at all of electrical circuits.
I have a simple circuit with 3aaa batteries powering a string of static...
Hi, DIY’er here.
I need a replacement transformer but can’t find the exact model required anywhere.
It is Golden Power GP-SW120DC0700(UK)
Input/Pri - 220V-240V - 50/60Hz
Output/Sec - 12V - 700mA 8.4W
Please can anyone help or suggest an alternative model that may work.
Thank you
Am fitting a new pir led floodlight . The exsisting light is connected to 4 core round flexible cable, core colours green/yellow, blue, brown and black .
Should i use the green/yellow , blue and brown and just terminate the black
Many thanks
Had to remove a led strip from a bathroom today because it’s getting tiled, now the led strip that was there was low voltage but didn’t have anything covering it. I’ve seen the wee aluminium profile things before, is this something that the led strip should be fitted in when in a bathroom? It...
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I wanted some advice regarding which downlights company is better from ancell or forum?
I have builders doing works in my house but I wanted an opinion of a specialist.
The reason I am going for ancell or forum is because they are the only 2 downlights brands that do black chrome or black...
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I have an a single LED (240v Robust Fixed, LAP GU10 LAD 250 Lm 4w) downlight which is going through a squence (after being on for a while), I ran a lap timer for an example of the behaviour :
Dim for 16 secs
Fully on for 2 mins 13 Secs
Dim for 16 secs
Fully on for 2 mins 11 secs...
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