Re: Low Voltage Lighting

"DaveC"  wrote ...
> 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.

Some people put in multiple switched circuits so you can control
the number of lights that are burning (and thus, the "mood")
without any tricky equipment. Sort of a room-level equivalent
of those "3-way" bulbs.