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Happy Harry
We have two wrought iron light fittings in our lounge that take five candle lamps in each. Using 25watt incandescent bulbs gives the right amount of light and with a clear envelope the sparkly filament looks good. With the onset of energy saving bulbs we find the compact fluorescents very unsightly with their large white base and diffuse envelope but we have just found that our local supermarket is selling off, as end of line, some Philips 28watt 240volt dimmable halogen lamps so we bought their remaining stock.
The whole compliment of ten lamps in the two fittings makes the room excessively bright and although the sparkly points of light looks just as good as the incandescent filaments they are so bright as to be damaging to the eyes if viewed directly. Obviously dimming is the answer. The only trouble is that the only dimmers we can find are either just suitable for low voltage halogens or can only cope with 50% of their rated capability of 400W. The ten lamps would of course consume 280 watts and fitting a double dimmer switch is an option that we would rather not take as this would involve chasing out the wall, making good, repainting, shifting all furniture from the bedroom, removing the carpet and cutting into glue jointed tonged and grooved flooring sheets to lay additional wiring. Does anyone know of a single dimmer switch that will handle 280 watts of halogen lamps at 240volts?
The whole compliment of ten lamps in the two fittings makes the room excessively bright and although the sparkly points of light looks just as good as the incandescent filaments they are so bright as to be damaging to the eyes if viewed directly. Obviously dimming is the answer. The only trouble is that the only dimmers we can find are either just suitable for low voltage halogens or can only cope with 50% of their rated capability of 400W. The ten lamps would of course consume 280 watts and fitting a double dimmer switch is an option that we would rather not take as this would involve chasing out the wall, making good, repainting, shifting all furniture from the bedroom, removing the carpet and cutting into glue jointed tonged and grooved flooring sheets to lay additional wiring. Does anyone know of a single dimmer switch that will handle 280 watts of halogen lamps at 240volts?
