Low voltage lighting shorts and how to fix them by troubleshooting.

We recently bought a home built in 1982, for a couple of days now one section is markedly dimmer than a week ago: the unloaded transformer still puts out 12V, when I connect the section in question the Voltage drops to 5.5V: I guess a short somewhere in some 100 feet of wires. How to locate the problem???Thanks Mike

It is most likely in the wire or one of the splices at the fixtures. Start by disconnecting the fixtures one at a time. If you have removed all the lights and you still have the problem, you must have a cut in the wire which is preventing full voltage from getting to the lights. I would replace the wire or find the cut and splice it. Check out our HOW TO DESIGN A LOW VOLTAGE LIGHTING SYSTEM page for more information. 12/2 LANDSCAPE LIGHTING CABLE is what you need as a replacement wire.

Labels: Landscape Lighting Cable, Low Voltage Lighting Shorts, Voltage Drop

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