Re: Low Voltage Lighting

"DaveC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Need to light a display in a dark room with less-than-full brightness
lights
> (ie, "mood" lighting). Would like to use small spots, but these are mostly
> quartz-halogen bulbs. To my understanding, QH bulbs must be run at full
> brightness, otherwise the filiments fail to "redeposit" properly.
>
> Also, dimming LV lighting is not straight forward (out of the box; I know
> anything can be done with custom controls...)
>
> This leaves mineature incandescant spots. Wiring is a pain (mains voltage,
> conduit, code requirements, etc.), but if all else fails, I'll do this
using
> a dimmer.
>
> Suggestions?
No problems running LV halogens at levels down to 20% or so as long as you
occaisionally run them at 100% to 'clean up' the deposited tungsten from the
capsule wall.
I use inductive rated dimmers with wirewound transformers throught out my
house with LV with no lamplife issues at all. In fact I think that lamplife
has actually been improved.
You can bounce queries like this on sci.engr.lighting NG.
regards,
JB