Fw: Re: Will CBUS work with this light fitting?

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I had to do this with some fancy lights the missus got.

Get yourself the Aurora transformers (I got mine from my local CEF) - buzz
free - totally silent.

G.

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Hi Andy,



The lights will work fine, but they will buzz when dimmed. Have changed
the
transformer on a few next lights for the same reason. Sometime you can get
different one in the fitting other times you can.

Let me know if you need more help

ben

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
andy_walkuk
Sent: 03 April 2006 14:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Will CBUS work with this light fitting?

Paul,

Sorry, yes, they are 10W G4 halogen bulbs, so no problem there, I am
putting 1A breakers on each channel anyway.

I was wondering what a halogen specific dimmer did differently to a
CBUS dimmer.

Andy



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@...>
wrote:
>
> > SWMBO has bought two lounge light fittings from NEXT each with 5
12V
> > halogen bulbs and includes the transformer in the top of the
fitting.
> >
> > The instructions state "Compatible with halogen specific
dimmer
switch".
> >
> > Does anyone know if my yet to be installed CBUS 8 channel Dimmer
be
> > able to work with this?  I dont want to risk blowing it up.
>
> I'll leave somebody else to address whether a randomly-chosen
transformer with that kind of instruction is liable to work.
>
> But - you don't say what size lamps are going in this light fitting.
If you're talking about 50W lamps, then 5*50W = 250W which is
> too much for one channel of an 8 channel dimmer, which has a 1A
limit per channel.
>
> Paul
>
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