I am at the point where I will be installing new lighting to my bathroom.
I want to be able to dim my main lighting so I have bought a pull cord dimmer. This allows a maximum of 250 watts of lighting.
I have been looking at the various downlighters and still cannot work out whether to go for low voltage or mains voltage downlighters.
I realise there is more to go wrong with low voltage (ie, transformer) but the cost of a replacement transformer is only a few quid so would not be fussed about this aspect, if low voltage was a better option. Also from research both low and mains voltage can be dimmed with the correct transformers.
The only minus point I can see for low voltage (other than cost of transformer) is that there doesn't appear to be a low energy type of lamp that can fit to them, (or at least I've not seen any and not many low energy lamps can be dimmed anyway).
Has anyone got any recommendations or advice? Is low voltage a good idea to go for a bathroom or is the fact that the circuit being on an RCD would negate the need for low voltage over mains anyway?
Incidentally, has anyone used the downlighter products from toolstation / screwfix as I was thinking of purchasing them from there as they seem to be a good price (not sure on the quality though).
Thanks in advance,
Daz
I want to be able to dim my main lighting so I have bought a pull cord dimmer. This allows a maximum of 250 watts of lighting.
I have been looking at the various downlighters and still cannot work out whether to go for low voltage or mains voltage downlighters.
I realise there is more to go wrong with low voltage (ie, transformer) but the cost of a replacement transformer is only a few quid so would not be fussed about this aspect, if low voltage was a better option. Also from research both low and mains voltage can be dimmed with the correct transformers.
The only minus point I can see for low voltage (other than cost of transformer) is that there doesn't appear to be a low energy type of lamp that can fit to them, (or at least I've not seen any and not many low energy lamps can be dimmed anyway).
Has anyone got any recommendations or advice? Is low voltage a good idea to go for a bathroom or is the fact that the circuit being on an RCD would negate the need for low voltage over mains anyway?
Incidentally, has anyone used the downlighter products from toolstation / screwfix as I was thinking of purchasing them from there as they seem to be a good price (not sure on the quality though).
Thanks in advance,
Daz