I bought a lighting system from Ikea ~2 years ago, made of 3 halogen lamps, each being 12V 20W. It's mounted on electrical wires. The adaptor died. It is actually a little scary as one wire feeding the adaptor apparently get too hot, and almost melted the adaptor plastic. Looks like a fire hazard to me.
On the adaptor, it says: input: 120V, 60Hz, 0.6A output: 11.5V, 5A, 57.5W
which kind of makes sense from what I remember from school: Watt = Amp x Volt I went to radioshack and the guy said they didn't carry anything like this.
So I the plan now is to buy an adaptor from the internet but not sure what to get:
- can I buy any 110V to 12V 5A adaptor ? Apparently, it is easy to find as they are commonly used as a LCD adapters. e.g:
Any feedback much appreciated.
Fred