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Bob Minchin
 
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Default Dimmers For Low Voltahe Halogens

The Question Asker wrote:

Hi,
Was wondering if its possible to fit a dimmer to low voltage lights with a
transformer. Was looking for a remote control one, but keep reading that its
not possible to use one but have read a few post about them being used
what's the correct procedure.
Cheers
Oli


AFAIK, Halogens with an electronic transformer (much lighter than iron cored
one) can be used with a dimmer designed for use with such things.
Those with ordinary iron cored heavy transformers cannot be used with dimmers
due to their inductance upseting the triac control and possibly overheating the
transformer arising from a DC component fed to the transformer.

Bob