As I have 5x20W low voltage (12V) G4 halogens, the way I see it is that the total load is 100W.
12v is NOT low voltage. Mains, 240v is low voltage. 12v is extra low voltage.
Please get your terms correct before someone is killed.
As I have 5x20W low voltage (12V) G4 halogens, the way I see it is that the total load is 100W.
Presuming you fitted the LAP dimmer yourself
And of course, after all this we might find that ZZZ's lamp does not contain a 240V-12V dimmable-power-supply, only a 240V-12V power-supply, and all this discussion and my suggestion of a Varilight dimmer is mute. :<
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Please show a credible mechanism whereby zzz getting his terms incorrect could lead to someone getting killed.12v is NOT low voltage. Mains, 240v is low voltage. 12v is extra low voltage.
Please get your terms correct before someone is killed.
Well - If some one has 240V thinking it 12V then, presumably, it is possible.
I take it you think it is alright to use this error one way round but not the other.
The result is we will always get grey imports which use the American definition, and likely internet search will from time to time show the American rather than British.Wikipedia said:The United States 2005 National Electrical Code (NEC) defines low (distribution system) voltage as 0 - 49 volt. Although the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) defines supply system low voltage as voltage in the range 50–1000 V AC or 120–1500 V DC.
The result is we will always get grey imports which use the American definition, and likely internet search will from time to time show the American rather than British.
It is NOT the manufacturers who are wrong, they don't have control of how their products will cross boarders. Some times things like white and black wires rather than blue and brown or the spelling of colour will alert us. If it gives color temperature the it is American and if it has Colour temperature it's British.
Are you suggesting that it is only grey - unofficial - imports causing this confusion?The result is we will always get grey imports which use the American definition, and likely internet search will from time to time show the American rather than British.
Of course they do. The EU is very strict on such matters.It is NOT the manufacturers who are wrong, they don't have control of how their products will cross boarders.
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