When designing a system for outdoor illumination you must first decide the purpose of the lights. If they are to provide good lighting to enable you to see around the property in the dark, a 120 volt system may be necessary. To put together a system that offers subdued lighting used mostly for effect, an outdoor low voltage lighting system is what you are looking for.
An outdoor low voltage lighting system typically operates on 12 Volts and requires a transformer to change the 120 Volts in the home to 12 Volts to operate the system. There are two main methods of hooking lights to the transformer, straight line and loop, but the number of lights hooked to the transformer as well the distance the lights are from the transformer will affect how bright the lights glow.
In most installations of outdoor low voltage lighting systems, six to 10 lights may be possible and the closer together they are located, the less voltage drop you will experience. Additionally, the furthest light from the transformer will experience the most voltage drop. Some loss can be compensated by the size of the wire used, such as eight gauge or even 10 gauge, but remember […]

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