Garden Glow Essentials Garden Lighting Transformer 60W

Sixty watts, which will run about eight small fittings. The smallest transformer worth owning.

Low voltage garden lighting lives or dies on the cable and the connectors, not on the fittings. Two things go wrong. Cable too thin for the run, which shows up as the far end of the garden being visibly dimmer than the near end. And joints made with terminal blocks in a plastic box, which fill with water within a season. Buy the thicker cable and the gel filled connectors and neither problem happens. Our transformers are toroidal, which means they run cool and quiet and tolerate a long cable run, and every one over 150W has multi tap outputs so you can dial out voltage drop rather than live with it.

Specification

• Dimensions: see the product name
• Materials: PVC and rubber jacketed cable, toroidal transformer in a powder coated case
• Finish: black cable, graphite grey case
• Light source: not applicable
• Light output: not applicable
• Colour temperature: not applicable
• Beam angle: not applicable
• Power: 230V input, 12V SELV output
• Ingress protection: IP65, jet proof, suitable for open garden use
• Cable: as described in the product name
• Warranty: 5 years on the fitting, 2 years on the LED and driver
• Photocell and seven day timer built in
• Single 12V output
• Thermal and short circuit protection
• Weight: approximately 1.6 kilograms

In the box

• 1 x garden lighting transformer 60w
• Mounting bracket and glands

Installation

This is a mains fitting and must be installed by a qualified electrician working to BS 7671, on an RCD protected circuit, using armoured cable or cable in conduit where it is buried. Part P notification applies to most outdoor work in England and Wales. If that sounds like more than you want to take on, the same fitting is available in the 12V range and you can lay that yourself.

When to buy

Garden lighting is bought in spring and installed in a hurry. It is much easier to dig a cable run in February when the borders are bare and the ground is soft than in May when everything is in leaf and you are trying not to stand on it. Order in winter, get the cable in, and the first warm evening of the year is ready for you rather than a job list.