

If you have access to mains power, or you’ll be employing an electrician, that’s fantastic – you can take your pick of every single style. When you’re choosing outdoor lighting, the next thing to consider is how you’re powering your lights.

There’s a huge amount of choice in our range of outdoor lights, and so whatever type of lighting you are looking for, we’re certain to have the right solution for you. Maybe you’re looking for lights for your patio, such as decorative strings of fairy lights or festoons, or perhaps you’re looking for ways to highlight specific elements of your garden, such as garden spotlights, deck and ground lights, or feature lights. You might be looking for outdoor lighting to light up certain areas of your garden, or for a particular reason – so you might be using wall lights, post lights, and porch lights. But lighting up the entrance to our homes, and our gardens is important, both for safety, and so that we have sufficient light for when we’re enjoying the outside of our homes during the warmer months. The exterior of our homes are sometimes forgotten about, or are low on the list of priorities when we’re doing renovations.

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Portable & Rechargeable Outdoor Lights 68.There’s a list of trusted NRTLs that is readily available. CCC, RoHS, FCC, these are all junk markings they put on stuff to confuse you. If you see “CE” as the major marking, that means they can’t qualify for a proper UL listing or other NRTL. or fill the house with toxic smoke so you’re dead before you even wake up. A million things, like using the wrong plastic in the case, so it won’t self-extinguish and will accelerate a fire. It’s never been inspected by an independent testing lab like Underwriter’s Laboratories (UL), and it shortcuts all the design standards that keep us safe (e.g. That stuff is a sea of cheap Cheese junk, and it’s not about American jobs, it’s the fact that direct mail bypasses the product-quality and safety laws that make it illegal for Home Depot to sell that crud at retail. If it says “Sold by and Fulfilled by Amazon”, then don’t attach it to AC mains power! If it says “Ships from and sold by “, then don’t attach it to AC mains power! Well, if it says “Ships from and sold by ” it’s probably alright, but there have been some counterfeiting problems on popular items. Don’t buy mains electrical gear off Amazon Return it for sure! If you’ve never done Amazon returns, there are several easy ways, including any UPS Store will take them even unboxed - just the loose item and the return slip off your phone, which they scan. Read below, and if you were ripped off with non-UL-Listed cheap junk, make them pay.

The power supply is either too small for the job, or is defective. Since the lights work on the battery charger (and it may be overloading the battery charger but most of them tolerate it for short times), we know the issue is the old transformer and new power supply. Your battery charger test reveals the problem The landscape lights do not care if they are AC vs DC. We don’t even bother calculating it differently, honestly. If you’re at a specific voltage, AC doesn’t help at all. You probably have a switching power supply. Also, transformers are made of copper and iron, and are quite heavy. Therefore, that DC power supply you got is not a transformer. The thing that steps it up/down is called a transformer, and it only works on AC.The higher voltage could be transmitted with far less transmission loss. The whole point of the “War of the Currents” was that AC could be run through a Transformer to easily step it up to a higher voltage.
