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Matsu
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Join Date: May 2004
 
2008-05-05, 21:28

Alright, I know a few of you will have an answer to this.

Where I live we're phasing out incandescent bulbs. Seeing as we're doing a little home remodeling, I think it's the perfect time to change the lightings system.

Pots lights for the low ceiling areas and track lighting fro the high ceilings. The question is, do we go low voltage or line voltage?

I read in some places that low voltage is more efficient, but is that really true. If I hook up a 35 watt bulb doesn't it use up the same amount of electricity whether it's part of a 12v or 120v system. The service coming into the building is 120v, a transformer has to step that down to 12v, on the output end, but the bulb still uses 35 watts, wouldn't both a line or low voltage system use the same amount of energy if they had the same number of (same rating) bulbs?

Granted there are plenty of variatios in intensity of light, but I'm not so sure that low voltage lights are that much brighter that significantly lower wattage halogens could be used?

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