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Hey all, I am needing to look into converting a lot of halogen dichroics 12V to LED's some also to be dimmable.
Now for your experience bit, can they be fitted with an LED driver x 1 per lamp as the MR16's had and an appropriate trailing edge dimmer module or as most lower wattage drivers seem to be non dimmable would that mean you can't do 1 driver per head and need to try and rewire through existing holes to group a few lamps to 1 higher rated dimmable driver ?

Option 2 I'm thinking of is just change fly leads all to GU10's and revert them to dimmable mains powered LED's to save time / cost etc ? Any thoughts.

Many Thanks,
 
do they have to be 12v? bathroom or something?
if not then option 2, chuck transformers out, use dimmable gu10 mains lamp in existing fittings.
 
If it was me (and I've done quite a few conversions from MR16 to LED) I would fit GU10 fly leads every time. The GU10 lamps are cheaper than MR16 and you still have a driver which could fail, at least with GU10 the driver is integral in the lamp so if it pops then it is a simple lamp change.
 
Fair comment I was thinking exactly along the lines of driver / transformers just another thing to fault!
Just thought GU10's might be old hat now. That's great and on,y for kitchen areas and possibly lounge area so no bathroom issues etc.
thanks for the second opinion guys
 

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