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Russell griffiths

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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. 

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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.

 

 

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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

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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.  

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