I have several low level LED stair lights in my house. They are Aurora AU-STL883 with a built in driver. They are all wired via the loop-in method. None of them work apart from the first one which even when it is off emits a very faint amount of light. The lights have 'no serviceable parts' according to the website product info so I swapped the only working light with the last one in the circuit. All lights now working except the original 'faulty' one. I assume a faulty driver. My question is: what's the advantage of looping the wiring when a failure of the built in driver causes all subsequent lights not to work? I suppose it's true of any lighting circuit, LED or otherwise. Would wiring via junction boxes prevent this kind of failure? Or at least, keep all the others working.
Also, elsewhere in the house, there are 8 x 1 watt spotlights connected to a single LED driver. The leads from each spotlight all come back together into a cupboard where each line and neutral have been squeezed into one of two terminal blocksThat's 8 in each block, one for line one for neutral. Is there a preferred way of connecting this many lights rather than using a block as described?
Thanks.