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Hi, thanks for reading this. I’m after a bit of advice... Have just built a new garden store in the garden, including a log store on one external wall. I’d like to install a light in the store, and also an LED strip to down light the log store (only cos I think it’ll look cool). Obvs would...

I am renting a small flat that has about 20 downlights throughout the property. It looks like there's a random collection of whatever halogen downlights the previous tenants could find. Some are not working, so I'm replacing them all with new LED ones. I've just replaced the 8 in the...

Hi. Buying light fittings was easy last time I had to do it (years ago). Now renovating and want all lights on dimmers. Electrician has wired first fix already. Now I need to choose the right light fittings/bulbs/types of dimmer switches. I'll have a mixture of recessed spots, wall lights and a...

Hi I have been trying to plan downlights for an installation in a clients lounge area using LAP downlights with a 60deg beam angle, but my calculations have been giving me a a low number of lights required compared to what the client wants. The room is 6.6m x 3.6m with a ceiling height of 2.6m...

Hi all, Screwfix offer 3, 5-pack GU5.3 LEDs from LAP in warm white. The most expensive (6557V @£13.00) are dimmable, which I don't need. The spec for the other 2 (782FH @£9.99 and 2730V @£11.99) look identical. Any idea what the difference is ? Thanks in advance, Mike

Hi I’m looking for help and advice in regards to some kitchen lighting from the people with experience of using/fitting kitchen lights. I just got my wren kitchen delivered and I’m looking to start fitting it over the next couple of weeks. I am resheeting most of the kitchen so any cables can...

Replacing Halogen by LED and need to remove the Transformer. What is best method to connect the eight 2.5mm cables together along with the 1.5mm mains input.

Good evening all, I need your help! 4 years ago we moved into our self built home. We sub contracted the work and had an ace electrician fit some complete LED down light throughout the house. They came with what appears to be worthless 10 year warranty and many of them are failing. There’s 97 in...

If I would like to change all my lightnings to LED and rewire the house, can we eliminate the 230v mains completely from lighting circuits?

Hi . Thanks in advance for any advice anyone can give. I'm looking at installing smart lighting into my home and most bulbs are ES but every socket in the house is BC. I would love to just replace the socket on the pendant in stead of replacing the whole thing. Is this possible? I do not want to...

Hi, I bought an iluminated mirror baterry powered. There are leds where the output is 12V. I bought AC Adapter 100-240V 50/60HZ 1.0 A input and 12V 5.0 A output. I have only shaver socket in my bathroom. When I connect this mirror with AC Adapter to normal UK socket in living room or anywhere...

Folks, One of the fluorescent tubes in my garage has given up the ghost. (It was flickering badly for a while.. I changed the starter but to no avail)... it's a 1.5 meter long tube, philips as shown here; Can I just replace it with an LED tube... And I mean just replace it. I don't want the...

Hi, I recently bought this led bulb to replace fluorescent ones in a bathroom. https://www.ie.screwfix.com/luceco-led-2d-bulb-4-pin-2000lm-18w.html The leds flickered a lot and there was a small burning smell. Does anyone know why this would happen? Thanks in advance The fixture:

Anyone know what equivalent LED bulb reference to halogen candle below:- e14 halogen 64543 b 46w

Hi everyone , i am trying to use inline dimmer to dim several 1w high power leds , connected in parallel .i purchased a dimmable 12v 1w driver , but it didn't work , the store support told me it's not for pwm, which is what i need.(i swear it worked fine when i did the same thing 2 years ago...

I have 2 LED power supplies, Both 12V @ 8.5A ==> 100W. One is an S-100-12 the other a T-100-12. I am assuming the T is a newer model. The S is much heavier and longer. The S has larger transformers, a toroid, an input voltage selector switch, and more filter capacitors than the T. The S runs at...

Evening all, Looking for some recommendations. My electrician always uses JCC downlight in all our projects. Looking to save some money - but not if its going to cause a big drop in quality. Are these the best reasonable units out there or are there some alternatives? Also, best places to...

Hi all...anyone know of an equivalent led bulb to this ses 25watt reflector bulb? It's for a display cabinet and all the ones I've looked at are to long.Thanks

Just bought a wall lamp and the bulb is a G9 halogen rated at 40W. Now I want to change it to an LED version. I understand that a lot of the LED's now say 4W equivalent to a 40W, however I believe this to be in regards to light output (we all used to go out and get a 100W bulb and didn't care...

I want to put LED lights into my kitchen extractor fan to replace the halogen ones. I have replaced the driver for a 12v output to the bulbs, which works fine on the tester. I have taken the halogen bulbs out and put 2 watt LED bulbs in. However the bulbs keep flickering and don't turn off. The...