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E.L.V. Garden Bollards.

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A customer has some underground S.W.A. cable supplying three low level garden lights. The installation is amateurish and now keeps tripping off an R.C.D. He does not want the garden dug up to replace the cable with bad underground joints at the lights. I was wondering if E.L.V. lights could be used at say 12 or 24 Volts via an isolating transformer. Does anyone know of a suitable type of light please? That way the S.W.A could be reused.


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    Re use at ELV should be easy. Needs to be AC ELV and not DC. Even minute water ingress to DC connections will result in rapid corrosion.

    A halogen lighting transformer or similar should serve, provided that this is the conventional copper iron type and  not electronic.


    A vast range of ELV LED lamps are available from fleabay. Make certain that they are suitable for AC.


    Switch the mains side of the transformer, not the ELV side, to avoid the customer paying forever for the iron losses in the transformer.
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    Re use at ELV should be easy. Needs to be AC ELV and not DC. Even minute water ingress to DC connections will result in rapid corrosion.

    A halogen lighting transformer or similar should serve, provided that this is the conventional copper iron type and  not electronic.


    A vast range of ELV LED lamps are available from fleabay. Make certain that they are suitable for AC.


    Switch the mains side of the transformer, not the ELV side, to avoid the customer paying forever for the iron losses in the transformer.
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