Russell griffiths Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 After people’s opinions, the father in law is a retired electrician and chucked a curve ball into the electrical fog, how do you work out how many lights you can have on one circuit. So the main thinking is add up all the lights , calculate the power consumption, bingo what if you add it all up using a low consumption LED bulb in say a GU10 fitting and everything is good, you then sell the house and as the LED wear out the new owner puts in standard high consumption halogen, thus overloading the circuit does anybody know the the correct way to calculate this. Cheers russ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Work on a 35W GU10 for each and you won't go far wrong. Unless it is a massive house or totally overboard on the number of downlights you wont go far wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliG Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 The import and manufacture of mains halogen spotlights has been passed out now in the EU. They can still sell existing stock. You can still make 12v MR16s, but these cannot directly replace LED GU10s. I would not worry about someone replacing all your LEDs in future with high powered bulbs, eventually LEDs will be the only kind of build that exists apart from for specialist applications such as oven lights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 TBH I was going to use an Enlight fixed LED units however I’ve now decided to use a fixed GU10 Fire Rated downlight and then change the bulbs as I was concerned about the longevity of the fixed units. Only exception to this will be the kitchen that is having the LED round panel lights. Even the outside lights are LED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney12 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 (edited) 9 hours ago, PeterW said: TBH I was going to use an Enlight fixed LED units however I’ve now decided to use a fixed GU10 Fire Rated downlight and then change the bulbs as I was concerned about the longevity of the fixed units. Only exception to this will be the kitchen that is having the LED round panel lights. Even the outside lights are LED This is exactly what I’ve done. I’ve used the Megaman dimmable bulbs throughout and they’re excellent. Edited May 6, 2018 by Barney12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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