Advice on GU10

[Deansplit]

I bought some great fire rated GU10 downlights, but they only take the longer type of GU10 lamp. I don't want the low energy 7w Edison or 11w Megaman lamps as they need to be dimmable and I personally hate lamps which take 2 mins to reach full brightness, no what the saving!

Are GU10's available in halogen for this longer style fitting?

 

[ericmark]

Although you can dim quartz lighting it's not recommended as the whole idea of the quartz is to get the envelope so hot the tungsten will not deposit on it and will instead return to the element. Running them cold will shorten their life so if dimming is wanted then GU10 lamps are not the units that should be used.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I bought some great fire rated GU10 downlights,

No such thing.

but they only take the longer type of GU10 lamp.

I thought that all halogen GU10s were all either standard MR16, or (rarely) MR11 envelopes?

What are the longer type?

I don't want the low energy 7w Edison or 11w Megaman lamps as they need to be dimmable

Get dimmable ones then. Luminaires which have HF dimmable ballasts would be a good start.

and I personally hate lamps which take 2 mins to reach full brightness, no what the saving!

Don't buy ones which take that long then - simples. (Hint - proper fluorescent lighting doesn't take 2 minutes to reach full brightness).

Seems to me that you've made some fundamentally wrong choices of technology and are now complaining that you don't like what you've ended up with.

Are GU10's available in halogen for this longer style fitting?

Err - hang on - are you saying that these luminaires were not designed to use halogen lamps?

If so, using them will be a Bad Idea.

 

[Steve]

I bought some great fire rated GU10 downlights, but they only take the longer type of GU10 lamp. I don't want the low energy 7w Edison or 11w Megaman lamps as they need to be dimmable and I personally hate lamps which take 2 mins to reach full brightness, no what the saving!

Are GU10's available in halogen for this longer style fitting?

What ARE you blithering on about? Do talk sense! Put up a picture if you cant articulate yourself better than this.

 

[westie101]

Megaman certainly do two different designs of GU10 replacement lamps. As I recently found out as I war re-equipping my kitchen lights. Never seen any different halogen designs