D
DrNick
1st post on this forum so please be gentle! I’ve not read enough threads to know if it’s the kind of place where ignorant laypeople like me get hung drawn and quartered, or actually receive help - I guess we’ll soon find out! Thanks in advance to those who offer advice - I appreciate that this should maybe be in the DIY section but was hoping for professional advice.
So, we have been doing extensive renovations on an old farmhouse. We have exposed ceiling beams and because we don’t want to loose too much of them we have ditched our initial plan for recessed spot lighting (which might have had issues with the beams anyway…) in favour of a wired lighting system.
Given that I know nothing about things electrical I should probably be just telling a professional what we want and getting it designed and fitted. Or buy an off the shelf kit or two. But we are also skint, so I was hoping to source all the elements myself and just pay for installation, and we want to use MR16 LED lamps so reluctant to shell out for a system that includes halogens only to have to swap them out.
Essentially, my question amounts to: If I design a wire lighting system with e.g. 9 or 12 lamps, is selecting a transformer/driver as simple as adding up the power requirements of all of the individual lamps and speccing the transformer to that? (e.g. 9x 4W lamps would require a 36W driver?). Anything else I should take account of? Also, any sources for MR16 LED lamps that are particularly good/bad?
I'm a member of several other forums (on completely unrelated things) and used to suggesting the search function to people, but it's different when the shoe is on the other foot! Thanks for reading and, as I said at the beginning, thanks in advance for comments!
Nick
So, we have been doing extensive renovations on an old farmhouse. We have exposed ceiling beams and because we don’t want to loose too much of them we have ditched our initial plan for recessed spot lighting (which might have had issues with the beams anyway…) in favour of a wired lighting system.
Given that I know nothing about things electrical I should probably be just telling a professional what we want and getting it designed and fitted. Or buy an off the shelf kit or two. But we are also skint, so I was hoping to source all the elements myself and just pay for installation, and we want to use MR16 LED lamps so reluctant to shell out for a system that includes halogens only to have to swap them out.
Essentially, my question amounts to: If I design a wire lighting system with e.g. 9 or 12 lamps, is selecting a transformer/driver as simple as adding up the power requirements of all of the individual lamps and speccing the transformer to that? (e.g. 9x 4W lamps would require a 36W driver?). Anything else I should take account of? Also, any sources for MR16 LED lamps that are particularly good/bad?
I'm a member of several other forums (on completely unrelated things) and used to suggesting the search function to people, but it's different when the shoe is on the other foot! Thanks for reading and, as I said at the beginning, thanks in advance for comments!
Nick
