Hi,
I'm doing a lighting project and I'm mixing some LED strip lighting with some LED spots (GU5.3).
When I've like-for-like replaced other 12V halogen spots for LED spots in the house I've just swapped the bulbs directly keeping the existing AC transformers. Presumably these 'bulbs' have a built-in rectifier that allows them to run properly from an AC source?
Question is, for the new project, I have a 12VDC (100W) constant voltage driver which is driving the LED strip lighting and the lighting controller, will the same GU5.3 spots run correctly (and safely) from the 12VDC source?
One more question - I also want to drive the switched-live line of a timed extractor fan from the same 12VDC circuit - can I put a 12V SPST coil relay on this line driven from the 12V output from the controller?
Anything to watch out for?
Thanks!
I'm doing a lighting project and I'm mixing some LED strip lighting with some LED spots (GU5.3).
When I've like-for-like replaced other 12V halogen spots for LED spots in the house I've just swapped the bulbs directly keeping the existing AC transformers. Presumably these 'bulbs' have a built-in rectifier that allows them to run properly from an AC source?
Question is, for the new project, I have a 12VDC (100W) constant voltage driver which is driving the LED strip lighting and the lighting controller, will the same GU5.3 spots run correctly (and safely) from the 12VDC source?
One more question - I also want to drive the switched-live line of a timed extractor fan from the same 12VDC circuit - can I put a 12V SPST coil relay on this line driven from the 12V output from the controller?
Anything to watch out for?
Thanks!