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Re: X10 LM10U and electronic transformer halogen lights


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: X10 LM10U and electronic transformer halogen lights
  • From: Nigel Orr <nigel@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:26:59 +0100
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At 22:26 29/10/00 +0000, you wrote:
>No, the LM10 of any flavour will not work with low voltage halogens fed
>from a transformer. You can't feed a transformer with the sort of
>waveforms that triac dimmers give out - they just don't like it.

Not even a 'dimmable' electronic transformer?  I know 'real' transformers
don't like the inevitable DC from standard triac switching, but do
'dimmable' ones need special dimmers too?

Nigel


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