RE: 110V light bulbs wanted

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Any building site is full of 110V lighting. For safety reasons everything
has to be 110V so there should be no problem getting hold of them.

Likewise they also have some hefty 110V transformers so you could put a
110v
transformer at your consumer unit on the lighting circuit, change all the
bulbs to 110V fit the US switches and you are in business.

Converting back would be easy, Change the bulbs, fit normal switches,
remove
the transformer.

One thing to bear in mind though it that a 110V 60W bulb draws twice as
much
current as a 220/240V 60W bulb so the total allowable wattage on your
lighting circuit will be halved. Typically 720W instead of 1440W (assuming
a
6A rated cable)

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:tivo@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 June 2001 16:48
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] 110V light bulbs wanted
>
>
>
>    Haven't researched this well but is there an easy source of
> 110V standard
> lamp bulbs say 60W in the UK at reasonable prices. I use a couple of
the
> Smartlink X10 light switches through auto transformers and it
> would be much
> neater to drive US bulbs directly. Screw style is fine.
>
>    Of course if we had some properly spec'd X10 kit available here I
> wouldn't have this problem . I find it incredulous that there are
still no
> UK style X10 wall switches for two way switching circuits . Why can't
they
> just design a switch that works as an intermediate and it would
> work in all
> scenarios. It can't be that much more difficult or expensive.. and
then
> there's the double switches...
>
>     .......'but the market isn't big enough' I hear them say ... well
it
> never will be if you can't produce suitable products to start it
growing
> .....  The X10 technology will have been outdated by the time they are
in
> production.... then I suppose they'll say ... 'I told you they
wouldn't
> sell' !
>
>    Kevin
>
>
>
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