Here is a brain twister that nobody I have asked as been able to figure out.
At work, we use ACLs as intense spots (Air craft landing lights) and they run on 24v power. To make them work we slightly over power then by putting 4 in series to knock the 120v down to a more useable 30v each. The only trouble is.. if one burns out, they all go out (and might fry, depending on how the one burns out)
The twister is this.. if you run a 12v LED lamp.. does it have enough resistance to do the same thing? I am saying no, but other people in my department think it can be done. What says the engineers in the hive?
WTF. Really? No one has been able to figure out a transformer? Good lord man, who have you been asking?
Incandescent lights DGAF if you use AC or DC to make the wire hot but LEDs do. They are going to run at 50% on AC power (because diode) and will let the smoke out if you don't know what that means and get fancy outside the voltage current limitations.
You should probably hire an electrician at this point.
Well if you put them in series they will still have 30v each. (Assuming they are all the same resistance). If you put one led in with 3 incandescents, that will screw with the voltage balance.
Gps is right about the ac though, leds are by nature a dc device. There should be any number of ac-dc converters out there that will work.
Good news about LEDs though, is the current draw is so low you should be able to run quite a few in parallel off of one power supply!
I know this.. and we were not actually planning on it.. it was simply one of those "hmmmm" questions
