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The Natural Philosopher
 
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Default Halogen track lights - problem.

Grunff wrote:

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

As the voltage goes down, the quantity of current has to rise to make
up for it to achieve the same wattage.



They do what now?

In an Ohmic resistor, the current is *proportional* to the voltage.
There is no magical way with which you can "raise the quantity of
current" to make up for a drop in the applied voltage.


Switched mode power supplies are anything but ohmic.