Garden walkover decking lights

[thomo27]

Hi , I have a question ref garden decking lights the walkover design , do the sparks who post here install this kind of light or are people now going for solar powered ?

If you install the lights from the mains can you recommend a make/model ?

Cheers

Ste

 

[comms]

Last ones I installed were these
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/GL41PW.html

Got another 10 to put in a few weeks from now for the neighbour of the last place I put them in.

 

[breezer]

dont touch solar lights unless you have a barge pole.

they come on when its dark, not dusk, dont stay on long, no use if its a nice winter night (not enough sun to charge up for any reasonable duration) dont come on when you want them to

 

[thomo27]

Last ones I installed were these
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/GL41PW.html

Got another 10 to put in a few weeks from now for the neighbour of the last place I put them in.

Thanks for the link Comms , my situation is - the other halfs would like 4 lights on the decking , my idea of wiring this would be to spur off 2.5mm2 from a non spurred socket to a FCU then from the FCU connect the lights from there (once Ive drilled out the holes etc in the decking) when you install these lights do you use 1 transformer for each light or 1 for all 4 ? Do you purchase seperate boxes to house the transformer in or are they weatherproof ?

 

[Lectrician]

Robus ones are quite good. They take a 240v GU10, including LED versions of the GU10.

Short length of flex to a 4x4x2 gewiss box or similar, with SWA between lights.

 

[breezer]

comms went to the trouble of giving you a link, and you did not read it

 

[thomo27]

My bad , the link answers all my questions

 

[comms]

My bad , the link answers all my questions

Glad you got there in the end
But in answer to your question the next job installing these I'm using 2 drivers in seperate boxes connected by 1.5 swa as the lights will be in 2 groups of 5 some 10 meters apart.