Hi,
I've come across a bunch of radio controlled dimmer halogen transformers (240 -> 12V). My intention is to use these to power little installations of doll's house lights around my home (at the request of my better half).
However there's an issue in that the current draw from 4 or 5 doll's house lights on each installation is no where near enough to cause the circuit to fire up. I'm guessing this is the over voltage protection as the load is lower than designed for.
Each bulb draws roughly 60mA.
The transformer is designed to drive between 30W - 105W.
I'm wondering what the experts here think is the feasibility of swapping the components to provide safe powering of circuits of no more than 15W.
I suppose the first step would be to survey a board, pull and list all the components and create a schematic, which I'm willing to do and post up here.
I just wanted to see if there's any immediate "this will never work" thoughts before I get into this.
I have skills in electronics building and am safe worker with mains electricity, I'm just not an expert with circuit design.
thanks for reading
I've come across a bunch of radio controlled dimmer halogen transformers (240 -> 12V). My intention is to use these to power little installations of doll's house lights around my home (at the request of my better half).
However there's an issue in that the current draw from 4 or 5 doll's house lights on each installation is no where near enough to cause the circuit to fire up. I'm guessing this is the over voltage protection as the load is lower than designed for.
Each bulb draws roughly 60mA.
The transformer is designed to drive between 30W - 105W.
I'm wondering what the experts here think is the feasibility of swapping the components to provide safe powering of circuits of no more than 15W.
I suppose the first step would be to survey a board, pull and list all the components and create a schematic, which I'm willing to do and post up here.
I just wanted to see if there's any immediate "this will never work" thoughts before I get into this.
I have skills in electronics building and am safe worker with mains electricity, I'm just not an expert with circuit design.
thanks for reading