Hi, Went to Home Depot yesterday looking to replace an existing 120v, 2' trac light setup in my kitchen. The existing heads didn't throw much light and I thought replacing the trac with a 4' piece and adding heads would be nice. I saw the all in one kits that included 44" of trac and 4 heads but they were not very attractive. I really liked the low voltage pendants. These work in a 120 volt trac and each has its own transformer. I asked about dimming these and the guy said that it could be done but Home Depot does not sell the dimmer. I replaced the 2' trac with a new 4' 120 volt trac. Snapped in the new pendants and voila! nice bright light; really bright light; too much light. So I went to my trusted computer and looked up low voltage dimmers, and WOW they are very expensive! And now I'm not sure if they will work. Are the electronic low voltage dimmers designed to replace my existing 120v switch? Will one dimmer control the transformers in each pendant? Or will they only work on a 12v trac that has just one main transformer? Thanks, Jeff
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20 years ago