Low voltage Trac light question

Jeff,

I am not an electrician (just a plumber) but I don't think that the low voltage dimmer will work because you have a 120 volts at the switch. I think they may be set up if you have 12 v at the switch and it would control the main transformer.

I would try a regular dimmer switch on it. I would also wait until one of the electric gurus to answer you as I am not totally sure of myself.

rik

Go to an electrical supply house. You can buy a dimmer rated for your application and it shouldn't be much more than a designer dimmer would cost. It will replace your existing wall switch.

Why don't you just put in lower wattage bulbs and save some heat and electricity? When you dim a bulb using a dimmer the color temperature of the bulb changes. The bulb will begin to glow with a warm orange tone as you lower the dimmer setting. That may not be the look that you want in your kitchen.

Try a regular dimmer, I have had no problem with the lights you refer to.

So you're running low-voltage lamps using a 120v track. Each light has a transformer that steps down the voltage to 12v. I don't see how you can connect a low-voltage dimmer switch to a 120v line. Have you thought about using the 120v pendants and increasing the wattage of the bulbs? Or replacing the bulbs with a reflector flood or something similar. Surely that would throw more light than a low-voltage lamp.