splitting double insulated lighting circuit

[sparkwright]

Most people in the trade say low voltage, and mean 12 v and not 230-240 v.

Wouldn't it be just as easy, and less ambiguous, to actually state the voltage?

Yes.

But people don't.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Wouldn't it be just as easy, and less ambiguous, to actually state the voltage?

Yes.

But that ship has sailed.

 

[Risteard]

What voltage are they? As I said mains, 240 volt is low voltage.

Actually, it's called 230V (and has been for many years).

 

[ban-all-sheds]

 

[winston1]

What voltage are they? As I said mains, 240 volt is low voltage.

Actually, it's called 230V (and has been for many years).

But you insist you are in the Irish republic which is different.

 

[winston1]

No, not difficult at all. Most people in the trade say low voltage, and mean 12 v and not 230-240 v.

BUT, I had already told him 2 posts previously. He still got it wrong.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Apropos another thread as well.

Not disrespecting the OP; it's not his job nor his fault as the manufacturer's do the same but this shows the confusion caused:

We do know what he means because of the thread.

Lights are non-fire rated low voltage MR16s with individual transformers...I was planning to change to mains (no transformer) fire rated GU10s.

So - low voltage MR16s are to be changed to mains GU10s.

May not have to do anything, then.

 

[winston1]

Apropos another thread as well.

Not disrespecting the OP; it's not his job nor his fault as the manufacturer's do the same but this shows the confusion caused:

We do know what he means because of the thread.

Lights are non-fire rated low voltage MR16s with individual transformers...I was planning to change to mains (no transformer) fire rated GU10s.

So - low voltage MR16s are to be changed to mains GU10s.

You have STILL got it wrong.

EXTRA low voltage GU 5.3 MR16s are to be changed for mains GU10 MR16s.

GU etc is the base, MR etc is the size in eights of an inch.

 

[EFLImpudence]

No I haven't; that is what the OP wrote and the point I am making.

Mains GU10 lamps ARE (or can be) low voltage MR16s

 

[winston1]

No I haven't; that is what the OP wrote and the point I am making.

Mains GU10 lamps ARE (or can be) low voltage MR16s

OK, but he also said his low voltage MR 16s had individual transformers. So more info required, isolation transformers?, maybe 120V lamps, but certainly not 12volt.

 

[diyer56]

Perhaps we could change the thread title to
splitting [hairs and] double insulated lighting circuit

 

[Risteard]

What voltage are they? As I said mains, 240 volt is low voltage.

Actually, it's called 230V (and has been for many years).

But you insist you are in the Irish republic which is different.

It's not different. In all 32-Counties of the All-Ireland Republic the voltage is 230V.

As indeed it is throughout all CENELEC countries.

 

[sparkwright]

Who's the one on this forum always going on about transformers, and what they should really be called?

 

[JohnD]

is?

Or is called?

I'm in the UK, so have no more than a passing interest in foreign countries such as the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland.

 

[bernardgreen]

the voltage is 230V.

Is that AC or DC. To be precise it is 230 volts Root Mean Square ( RMS )

Over to you Winston