Installing sitting wall lights

[cgland]

How do you guys approach sitting wall lights when you are installing a hub type system? Run the daisy chain? "T" in the middle? Conduit every light outside the wall?

[Evening Star Lighting]

The Hub style system was designed to equal out the load on larger circuits- usually 100 watts and up. Small fixtures, such as ours and others do not require a Hub as these fixtures draw 10 watts and less. It would be cost prohibitive and labor intensive to retail a small fixture with a long length of secondary wiring for attaching to a Hub. The smaller fixture's secondary wiring- usually 18 gauge is easy to work with and hide in the Hardscape. Connections are done using an Insulation Piercing Connector, or with silicone filled wire nuts that are suitable for direct burial.

[cgland]

Be that as it may, you will still see noticeable voltage drop if not installed in a proper manner. What method do you prefer?

[JZap]

We pretty much are only using Integral under cap lights for sitting walls. Installation doesn't get easier and the product is phenominal.

[SzotAllied]

Here is a simple formula for calculating voltage drop over a specific run of cable. This may help some of you.

(total watts X length of run)/Cable size constant = voltage drop
Cable size constants:
18ga 1380
16ga 2200
14ga 3500
12ga 7500
10ga 11920
8ga 18960

So, as an example.
You're installing 8 10watt(total 80 watts) lamps on a length of 12/2 cable that is 100' long.

(80watts x 100')/7500 = 1.06v

So you will lose 1.06volts over the length of that run. Assuming the transformer has a 12.5v output the last light will be getting 11.44volts.

[cgland]

Excellent info. Thanks