Low voltage lighting in 18th edition?

Same bloke in TLC Direct in the lamp holder post, reckoned that the 18th edition will specify that all new lighting installations after a certain date will have to be low voltage.

Anyone heard this?

Reply to
David Lang
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I hope not. When I installed 12V LED spotlights they obliterated radio reception.

Reply to
Scott

*extra* low voltage ? :-)

That'll be a right bugger for theatres and sports stadia.

Owain

Reply to
spuorgelgoog

240V *is* low voltage.
Reply to
Huge

That would make sense when everyone is using LEDs.

Though incandescents can be low voltage and no-one suggested that all your lighting circuits should be supplied from a transformer. Then it wouldn't matter if you stuck your fingers in the sockets (as I suggested in another post).

Reply to
Max Demian

they already are, if you use the 17th edition terminology.

Making them all

Reply to
tabbypurr

Should have used a toroid...

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

So is 230V.

Reply to
ARW

I did. Three of them in fact.

Reply to
Scott

PS do you mean a toroidal transformer?

Reply to
Scott

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Reply to
Huge

So you were feeding these LEDs 12vAC?

Reply to
Graham.

Plus or minus. Is it +10% / -6% or something else as there seems to be some confusion? I'm sure 240V is in there. .

Reply to
Scott

so is 1000V. (so is 1500V. if it's DC) :::::::::: :::::::::: so is 231V. so is 230V.

Reply to
Graham.

Low voltage: Exceeding extra-low (not exceeding 50v ac or 120v dc) but not exceeding 1000v ac or 900v dc between conductors and earth.

Reply to
charles

That's European harmonised supply bollocks. Nothing to do with what is or isn't LV.

Reply to
Graham.

Total bollocks. The consultation document hasnt been released yet, so no-one, apart from the JPEL Committee members know what is to be included. Maybe it is someone who thinks low voltage is ~12-24volts, whereas that is extra low voltage?

Reply to
Alan

Yes. I understand this is where the problem lay, with the switched mode converter handling 19 or so times the current mains would have needed. I had to go back to halogen.

Reply to
Scott

I appreciate that but I assumed 230V was chosen for a reason and I was commenting on that reasoning.

Reply to
Scott

well-known series

You could argue that the rest isn't, because it is ELV. Depends on context, obviously.

Reply to
Roger Hayter

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