LED Driver

[neil_ev]

I have recently bought a reel of SMD LED strip lighting. I know it's suggested that you use an LED driver to power these but they seem very expensive. I was wandering if I could use a standard electronic transformer used for powering LV spotlights, as long as I meet the minimum load?

I struggle to see why not but am open to correction.

thanks. neil

 

[electric will]

Edited
dumb post by me

 

[higgi17]

I supply and install alot of LED Strip lighting. I find caged power supplies up to 150W 12V DC drive LED very well but if you group a few together on a circuit they sometimes cause RCD's to trip probably through leakage. There are some decent 60W LED drivers online from UK suppliers around the £13 mark which look like slightly larger transformers. As already mentioned they need a constant power supply, I haven't seen any standard transformers drive LED without causing flickering or some other problem.
Most strip is supplied now at 12V DC allthough some do still get 24V DC strip but I have yet to use that to see what benefits it has over 12V DC.