Low Voltage Lights

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I am going to be installing low voltage landscape lights. The fixture that was picked out is a Malibu 12 volt with an 11 watt bulb. The only problem is I’m not sure how much light the 11 watt bulb will put out. Is it okay to change it to a 18 watt bulb. I am not going to be using a Malibu transformer. I will be using a 900 watt multi tap transformer, so capacity is not an issue.

I asked this question a week or so ago and think I may have confused folks. All of these power packs state for outdoor installation only. I called Malibu technical service and all she told me was that it was the UL code.

More simply put, does anyone know of a concern if I mount and plug in my transformer in my basement, and run the low voltage wiring through a small hole to the outside for my outdoor ground lighting?

Hope that’s clearer, thanks for any thoughts!

… how would you kill yourself? I mean, you would have ABSOLUTELY no chance of escaping this room, EVER. You would just dehydrate and starve to death or suffocate if you didn’t off yourself. What one solid-state, non-mechanical object would you prefer to have to do it? Remember, you can’t escape, no matter what! Check back often after you answer, because I will eventually think of how I would do it and with what item too. (you do not have to be creative, whatever works for you. It also helps to seriosuly imagine yourself in this situation and how time would wear on you.). Extremely long answers welcome.
Oh, and please check your spelling. Nothing kills the mood of what you’re writing as when you misspell.
Sorry friend, but the purpose of the low voltage light is that it cannot be used to electrocute yourself. That would be too easy.
And don’t forget, you’re allowed one solid-state, non-mechanical object to do this with.
Geez people, come on. Im not trying to be “novel”. Im satisfying my own curiosity and also entertaining myself and others who have fun answering these types of questions. Also, how would you live long enough to grow your hair and strangle yourself?
Knowing the helplessness of my situation, I would break the light, cut myself and write my last words in blood on the floor. (this would be difficult in the dark, but I’d try. Perhaps would be my last act once I decided how to kill myself). Then, the one item I would have would be, umm … a three foot steel spike. I would practice falling forward to the floor until I can do it without instictively throwing my arms up. This would be painful practice. Then, I would take the steel spike, with a wide flat base to keep it standing well, and put it in the center of the room. I would then jump up and attempt to land on it, aiming for the heart. If i miss, it would certainly be painful and I likely wouldn’t have the heart to try again, in which case I’d propably cut my wrists with the glass from the broken bulb. Or I could sit in agony and bleed to death from the wound I already have, although that would be long and arduous. If the room were tall enough, I’d hang myself with a cable
Or I’d take a large steel ball and try to swallow it and choke to death. I might take a claw hammer and after a long, insanity inducing time of being in that room, bludgeon my skull until I fell into a coma. Or maybe I would take a long, pointy object and stick it in my eye socket and attempt to labotomize myself, using rapid motions to get the job done completely because it would propably suck to just get some strange brain malfunction and have to be completely mentally concious to suffer it. I might also Get really aroused, perhaps through masturbation, then slice my penis open with a razor. This would be the fastest way to ensure sufficient blood loss. If I had any hope of rescue, I’d have a serated knife to occasionally cut of a part of my body for sustanance until I had no limbs left to remove, or would actually bleed to death because I’m nude and I chose a knife instead of a proper tourniquette as my item. Maybe I would have a sharp jagged length of steel and swallow it.
Or, I would have a bible. I would tear the pages out and swallow them until I died from ink poisoning. I could also use the tightly rolled up pages to make a shiv and stab myself. Or maybe I’d have a long, flat and heavy piece of steel with a razor sharp edge and wedge it into a corner of the room and run into it repeatedly until I was sufficiently butchered. I could deficate on the floor, let it fester for a few days until I’m starved enough to eat it and die from dysentary (sp?). I could also choose as my Item, about five gallons of lard, then keep eating it until I successfully clot my arteries. With any luck this will end in a heart attack and not a stroke or subcranial hematoma. Or for my item, I would have as much water as it would take to fill the room to the roof with water, then drown. Or my item would be a stack of paper. I would break the light, use the filament to start a fire, then burn the paper one sheet at a time untitl the oxygen is gone and I asphyxiate.

Low voltage residentual can lights seem to cost more for the hardware. What’s the point?

I have 14 LED lighting fixtures with 10″ pigtails and the transformer (12vdc 2800 mA 36 W) which powers all of them is 5 ft away. Please advise if wire nuts or what is used to extend the wiring from the fixture to the transformer. I assume I need some kind of terminal blocks to connect the fixtures to the transfomer. How do I connect all the terninal blocks to the transformer? Thanks.

I’m trying to find information on low voltage florescant lights. That is, florescant lights that run off battries and not mains voltage. Please advise.

I need to find a wall-mounted 277V, 20A light switch that can also be controlled by a low-voltage signal. Basically, we need to be able to turn a certain set of light switches in an office building on remotely when there is an alarm condition, regardless of the switch being ‘on’ or ‘off.’ I know this can be done using sensing shunt relays (like UL 924), but I’m hoping for a retrofit, all-in-one solution that will fit in an old-work switch box. Does anyone know of a product which can accomplish this *without* the need for external relaying or an elaborate workaround? The emphasis here is cost reduction. If I can pull just one 24V wire, so much the better.

I just bought a house that was built in 1964 and tonight learned that it has a low voltage system. I am looking for replacement switches. If you know where to find them or even just general information on low voltage systems, let me know. Thanks in advance.

here are pics of the switches i have.

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r288/ariesguy78/SwitchFront.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r288/ariesguy78/switchback.jpg

We are using 12G wire from the transformer and the spotlights are neither at the beginning or end of the run?

If I put in track lighting, will low voltage halogens save me money as opposed to regular track lighting?