making a 12 v fixture
Bought an old, non-electrified fixture and want to wire it to replace the standard issue over my dinette. Need to know what I need to do to make that an easy conversion. I sit possible to buy a simple...
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I agree with Gdetrailer, it is hard to make suggestions without knowing what the fixture looks like. There are a lot of places to buy LED bulbs and it is easy to wire them. All of the strips I have purchased were marked with the polarity. I have used the film type strips that generally come in 5 meter spools and I have used the aluminum backed strips 0.5 meters long.
The wire size can easily be as small as AWG 18. If you are looking for a corncob with a A19(Edison) base in 12v, that is a little harder, anything used in vehicles is easy to find.
Any fixture that has the base of the bulb down will require a higher lumin rating than LED that are pointing down. Also LEDs come with and without lenses, in different Kelvin ratings and different angle of disbursement.
I buy all my LED strips on eBay and have only had one failure and that was a 12" amber waterproof strip. I have been using a 5 meter strip cut down to 9' in my kitchen of the S&B for about 5 years. I had one touch pad dimmer fail but none of the LEDs.
I have been wiring strips and power cords since I started making my own fixtures for two reasons, first they are easy to solder and I think better and second, they don't take up any room. I've been soldering electrical and electronic components for over 63 years and I find it more secure.
It is really easy to rewire fixtures to accept LEDs once you know what style bulb you are going to use and hook the bases up.
The wire size can easily be as small as AWG 18. If you are looking for a corncob with a A19(Edison) base in 12v, that is a little harder, anything used in vehicles is easy to find.
Any fixture that has the base of the bulb down will require a higher lumin rating than LED that are pointing down. Also LEDs come with and without lenses, in different Kelvin ratings and different angle of disbursement.
I buy all my LED strips on eBay and have only had one failure and that was a 12" amber waterproof strip. I have been using a 5 meter strip cut down to 9' in my kitchen of the S&B for about 5 years. I had one touch pad dimmer fail but none of the LEDs.
I have been wiring strips and power cords since I started making my own fixtures for two reasons, first they are easy to solder and I think better and second, they don't take up any room. I've been soldering electrical and electronic components for over 63 years and I find it more secure.
It is really easy to rewire fixtures to accept LEDs once you know what style bulb you are going to use and hook the bases up.
