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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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    aligarjon:

    Pretty much every time i have been called out to garden bollard lights the problem is water ingress caused by ants making a nest up inside the fittings and damp tracking up through the soil because they haven't been sealed properly.



    Gary


    Indeed, internal bollard condensation is a problem with changing humidity and temperatures. Preferably the top of bollards should be vented but designed not to allow rain inside them, but most are sealed tighter than a drum. Dampness can rise up from the ground and become trapped inside the bollards and can not escape.


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    aligarjon:

    Pretty much every time i have been called out to garden bollard lights the problem is water ingress caused by ants making a nest up inside the fittings and damp tracking up through the soil because they haven't been sealed properly.



    Gary


    Indeed, internal bollard condensation is a problem with changing humidity and temperatures. Preferably the top of bollards should be vented but designed not to allow rain inside them, but most are sealed tighter than a drum. Dampness can rise up from the ground and become trapped inside the bollards and can not escape.


    Z.


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