Halogen track lights - problem.
Velvet wrote:
John wrote:
Mine had springy contacts in each lampholder to make contact with the
conducting bars. Dust and cheap manufacturing had caused poor contacts in
each holder. A strip and clean sorted it.
Ah, that's a point. I can get the entire track down, not sure how far
the individual units will strip, but I'll have a look at that tomorrow.
If they won't strip down far enough you could try blasting them with an
electronic cleaning solvent aerosol - removes dirt, grease, and oxide
film, great stuff. Not sure where you would get it locally though, I
used to buy it from work who got it from RS, Farnell, CPC, or similar.
Harry, I'd get nowhere taking them back to the supplier - no longer
proof of purchase, and I doubt they make the same units any more (twas
one of the sheds).
My family are heavily biased in the electronics/electric skills, so
there's a possibility of fixing if it's the transformer that has a fault
- I'm just interested in working out what it is as well as I can before
I start asking for a visit from them :-) If it's something simple that
I can fix then it's less hassle all around, really!
Velvet
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