Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article .com,
wrote:

Yes it is a halogen floor stander, with 10 flexible arms each with a
halogen bulb at the end of it.


So from what you are saying I will actually have to change the internal
workings/power supply of the lamp, in order to get it to work and its
nothing to do with earth or a crap dimmer switch?


You need a dimmer stated to be suitable for 'low voltage lighting' use.


And you need a LV transformer that is 'suitable for being dimmed'

Toroids can work..but electronic ones that are able to handel the
waveforms work too.