On Monday, 7 November 2016 15:31:27 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
But can be strange colours of course.
I'm not and have never been convinced that Halogen are anything but
unreliable current and tend to cook the sockets as well.
Brian

Yes they do seem to get rather hot and give off a lot of heat they've made a brown/black mark on my ceiling which is another reason to stick to lower wattge or a dimmer.
If you're dimming LEDs get dimmable LEDs and a dimmer that can dim LEDs seems simple enough but you'd be suprised.