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Help with spot lights!

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  • Rileybaby
    Rileybaby Posts: 240 Forumite
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    No happy happy sticking with halogen bulbs for the time being
  • Happychappy
    Happychappy Posts: 2,937 Forumite
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    Ok, its just I changed over from 35w halogens to LED's and the total combined wattage was less than 20w and it wouldn't work, so I left 1 x halogen bulb amongst the 5 bulbs and it worked fine, just seems there is a minimum as well as maximum wattage on transformers
  • Rileybaby
    Rileybaby Posts: 240 Forumite
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    Thanks Happychappy for the thought. It's driving me mad can't see where or what's wrong lol!
  • spadoosh
    spadoosh Posts: 8,732 Forumite
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    Your transformer outputs 12v. Sounds like youve got a mains spotlight (240v trying to draw from a 12v transformer). Try one of the other existing spotlight in the transformer to make sure its not that thats faulty. But also make sure youve got a 12v fitting.
  • Rileybaby
    Rileybaby Posts: 240 Forumite
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    Thanks spadoosh that makes perfect sense! Will give it a go and let you know.
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