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?
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?
I hope not. When I installed 12V LED spotlights they obliterated radio reception.
*extra* low voltage ? :-)
That'll be a right bugger for theatres and sports stadia.
Owain
240V *is* low voltage.
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).
they already are, if you use the 17th edition terminology.
Making them all
Should have used a toroid...
So is 230V.
I did. Three of them in fact.
PS do you mean a toroidal transformer?
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So you were feeding these LEDs 12vAC?
Plus or minus. Is it +10% / -6% or something else as there seems to be some confusion? I'm sure 240V is in there. .
so is 1000V. (so is 1500V. if it's DC) :::::::::: :::::::::: so is 231V. so is 230V.
Low voltage: Exceeding extra-low (not exceeding 50v ac or 120v dc) but not exceeding 1000v ac or 900v dc between conductors and earth.
That's European harmonised supply bollocks. Nothing to do with what is or isn't LV.
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?
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.
I appreciate that but I assumed 230V was chosen for a reason and I was commenting on that reasoning.
well-known series
You could argue that the rest isn't, because it is ELV. Depends on context, obviously.
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