Just bought a converted chapel with a couple of 12V tension wire lighting runs hung between the beams. It's a nice solution to a difficult lighting situation, and seems to work well. However I've noticed that the existing runs use JCC electronic transformers, whilst most sites selling tension wire lighting seem to say you have to use toroidal transformers. So anyone know what the issue is with using electronic transformers in such lighting systems ?
The reason I care is twofold. Firstly I'd like to add another tension wire run to light a dark corner, and would prefer if possible to use a compact and easily hidden electronic transformer as is currently being used. Secondly, because these lights are on most of the time, I'd like to replace the existing halogen bulbs with LEDs, however I'm concerned that in doing so I'll drop below the minimum load on the existing transformers.
(The ghetto solution to the second problem is I guess to leave one or two halogens in the circuit to keep the load up, and replace the rest with LEDs, but that seems like a problem waiting to happen in the future, if you forget which is which. So I'd prefer to do it properly with an appropriate transformer for an LED load, but which one ?)
The reason I care is twofold. Firstly I'd like to add another tension wire run to light a dark corner, and would prefer if possible to use a compact and easily hidden electronic transformer as is currently being used. Secondly, because these lights are on most of the time, I'd like to replace the existing halogen bulbs with LEDs, however I'm concerned that in doing so I'll drop below the minimum load on the existing transformers.
(The ghetto solution to the second problem is I guess to leave one or two halogens in the circuit to keep the load up, and replace the rest with LEDs, but that seems like a problem waiting to happen in the future, if you forget which is which. So I'd prefer to do it properly with an appropriate transformer for an LED load, but which one ?)
