Linking Low Voltage Downlights

[Damon]

What is your guys preferd method?

I was just gonna use 1.5mm Twin(brown cores) to link each light.

or should I t&e and connect block the earth.

 

[Sparky Ninja]

brown cores?

Are the lights individually LV or is there one transformer?

I normally use wago connections in a wago box. Running T&CPC between.

 

[Damon]

lights are
Linolite Sylvania Fire Rated Downlight Fixed 12v IP65

Toolstation > Lighting > Low Voltage Fire Rated Downlights

I need to use a transformer but surely not for each light if i buy a higher rated trasformer and fit at the start?

And i mentioned brown cores as the fly leads on one side of the transformer aint coloured bwn/blu...so figured if i use 2 core bwn then people later on know theyre live cables..

 

[Sparky Ninja]

Where would you put this bigger transformer?

It makes more sense to me to loop through from point to point T&CPC 230V then connect a transformer at each light, then it can be maintained as of when individually.
Saying that, I'd rather try to avoid using ELV in the first place.

 

[Damon]

So u mean fit like this?

WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbH & Co. KG

What do you call these connectors? Wago type ones?

 

[pushrod]

Where would you put this bigger transformer?

It makes more sense to me to loop through from point to point T&CPC 230V then connect a transformer at each light, then it can be maintained as of when individually.
Saying that, I'd rather try to avoid using ELV in the first place.

Thank you for the ELV - one of my pet hates when LV is used wrongly!

 

[Sparky Ninja]

Actually more like this

 

[Damon]

Like what lol??? A free sample lol

 

[Sparky Ninja]

Thank you for the ELV - one of my pet hates when LV is used wrongly!

Your welcome. One of those pet hates that commercially will never go away I reckon.

Like what lol??? A free sample lol

Yep. I sent for a free sample 6 months or so ago, I now I'm stocked up on them.

 

[telectrix]

run point to point in 230v T/E. separate tranny for each fitting. terminate T/E in 2" dia junction box ( small enough to fit through hole) then flex to tranny, 12v from tranny to light fitting. keep cables away from above fitting (heat). then any maintenance can be carried out from below by pulling the fitting out. no need to lift floorboards. or instead of the screw JBs, use widdlers wagos and boxes.

 

[telectrix]

Your welcome. One of those pet hates that commercially will never go away I reckon.


Yep. I sent for a free sample 6 months or so ago, I now I'm stocked up on them.

neatesxt ones iv'e seen, widdler. where you get 'em from. all my wholesaler has are pants

 

[Sparky Ninja]

I got the sample and took it to the Electric Centre. They then managed to get them in for me. Another guy I know gets the exact same ones through CEF also, but I'd rather buy something from the back of a pikey's van than over a CEF counter.

 

[Bigboy247]

Look at the click range of conectors easy to use and you can unplug them for testing or repair work.

 

[telectrix]

yeah, we all knock CEF, but here's a positive for them. i ordered a 1.2 kw halogen heater for a customer's pub smoking area from elec. ctr. when they got it in it was £145 + vat. rang mt customer to ask if he still wanted to go ahead. he rang me back a couple of days later . so i went to pick it up and found thet'd sold it and wouldn't have any in till january. wqent to CEF and bought off the shelf £138+vat. hmmmmm

 

[Damon]

Back to the original plan lol, So are you saying when you run flex from the JB to the transformer your replace one side of the original leads that come with the transformer?, Never had a good look at em thought they was sealed units.