Moving kitchen spots from halogen to Led

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I'm fed up with the halogen bulbs constantly going in the kitchen. If it's not the bulb it's the bloomin transformer. Our halogens are 50W 12V MR16 GU5.3. Seven on the ceiling and a further 4 on the walls just above the work surface.

If we were to convert these to Led do we need new lamp holders? What would you recommend? And any idea of cost . . . just a ball park figure.

Many thanks.
 
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It depends on the design of the lamp. Some are easier then others. you can get gu10 230V lampholders here here and led gu10's here It's about a mornings work
Given that the 230V wiring presumably currently goes to the 12V transformers/power supplies, rather than the light fittings, it might end up as a bit more than a morning's work to get 230V to all the fittings.

Kind Regards, John
 
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I'm fed up with the halogen bulbs constantly going in the kitchen. If it's not the bulb it's the bloomin transformer.

Transformers don't often blow. Bet you are using switch mode power supplies?
 
I have read it, and contributed to it.

Your repeated assertion that it proves that there is no such thing as an electronic transformer makes you look a bigger and bigger t**t each time.
 
I have read it, and contributed to it.

Your repeated assertion that it proves that there is no such thing as an electronic transformer makes you look a bigger and bigger t**t each time.

Where you wrote:


And I don't think we can rely on what the makers call them as evidence that they really are that, given their track record on "low voltage".

And also wrote:


But so far away from the perfect sense of using the perfectly well established and perfectly descriptive and perfectly satisfactory term "power supply" as to be another perfectly bonkers example of the perfectly ridiculous compulsion people seem to have to coin new terms, or corrupt the meaning of existing ones.
 
Where you wrote:


And I don't think we can rely on what the makers call them as evidence that they really are that, given their track record on "low voltage".
Yes. With respect to them being called transformers.

Are you simply unable to pay attention, or are you deliberately twisting or ignoring the context in which I wrote that?


And also wrote:


But so far away from the perfect sense of using the perfectly well established and perfectly descriptive and perfectly satisfactory term "power supply" as to be another perfectly bonkers example of the perfectly ridiculous compulsion people seem to have to coin new terms, or corrupt the meaning of existing ones.
Indeed.

And I still think that about the coining of the term electronic transformer. But the fact that it was unnecessary to create that term does not mean that it is incorrect.
 

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