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Wiring for Low-Voltage Lighting

Coastal Contractor

March 2008
by Cliff Popejoy
Your clients enjoy their deck every day. Install the right lighting and they'll love it after dark, too.

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Wiring for Low-Voltage Lighting Your clients enjoy their deck every day. Install the right lighting and they'll love it after dark, too. Cliff Popejoy Low-voltage lighting isn't just post caps. A wide variety of fixtures provide general, decorative, accent, and safety lighting. A great deck deserves great lighting, not just a couple of wall-mounted 100-watt floodlights that glare down on the deck — which is almost worse than no light at all. There are two different types of deck lighting systems: One operates on household voltage (120 volts, also called "line voltage"), and the other runs on low voltage (12

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