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This may sound like a daft question, but will 6 LV (240V) 50W downlights cost more to run than 6 ELV (12V) 50W downlights?
240v or 12v
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Short answer: no.
Longer answer: not in terms of power consumption, I don’t know about the difference in bulb life and bulb costs?
The answer you didn’t ask for: if your thinking about costs then your looking at the wrong lights, 300W of power is a lot to use to light a room even if it’s a big room that needs that much light you can get just as much light with a lot less power from CFL’s. there are CFL’s that fit in downlighters but the one I have seen stick out, you may now be able to get downlighters designed for CFL’s but personally I am not a fan of downlighters for the many reasons I listed in the wiki
Longer answer: not in terms of power consumption, I don’t know about the difference in bulb life and bulb costs?
The answer you didn’t ask for: if your thinking about costs then your looking at the wrong lights, 300W of power is a lot to use to light a room even if it’s a big room that needs that much light you can get just as much light with a lot less power from CFL’s. there are CFL’s that fit in downlighters but the one I have seen stick out, you may now be able to get downlighters designed for CFL’s but personally I am not a fan of downlighters for the many reasons I listed in the wiki
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sorry, forgive my ignorance but what does cfl stand for?
Compact Fluorescent Lamp
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breezer
these
which are a miniture (compact) version of
They will cost pretty much the same to run (the transformers are not 100% efficient though and there will be some losses).
However, assuming they are tungsten halogen then 12V ones will give you more light.
However, assuming they are tungsten halogen then 12V ones will give you more light.
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