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When landscaping the planning of lighting systems take a prominent part. Nowadays, landscape lighting fixtures are very popular and they are in many shapes, colors, designs and sizes. You can set them to create beautiful ambiance in gardens and increase the value of your home as well. When you fix landscaping lighting systems, connecting it with landscape lighting transformer is important.

The landscape lighting transformers have changed with time and technology and now they're many types of transformers in the market. The low voltage fixtures and transformers are very popular among customers, as energy costs are ever increasing. With a low landscape lighting transformer, you can control high voltages thereby supplying low power to the fixtures and it can reduce your electricity bills to a great extent.

The first thing you have to find out when selecting suitable landscape lighting transformers is the total voltage. The voltage of the transformer should match with the voltage of the landscape lighting system. The gauge of wires should also be in the same voltage level. By purchasing a larger one and correct voltage wires, you can face problems that may arise with an alteration of the original plan, or in case you have future plans to add more complex landscape lighting systems.

By calculating the voltage of each bulb in the system, you can take the total voltage. According to this calculation, you have to buy a transformer that is adequate for the task. It is necessary to add little more watts to the total voltage as well. This you can do by rounding up the total watts. For example, if you get a total of 355 watts, make it 400 watts. This addition may help as a buffer and will be handy whenever there is a future addition of bulbs.

You cannot use standard wiring to connect low voltage wiring to transformers. Nevertheless, they are not expensive and can be purchased from the same place where you buy other light fixtures. You have to measure the length from the transformer to the farthest place of the lighting system in the yard and also the extent that is needed to go to the bulbs inorder to get the total length of wires.

Low voltage lighting kits that come with landscape lighting transformers are also available. You don't have to calculate the voltage of bulbs to buy separate transformers if you buy one of these kits, as they include all the components needed including the lighting fixtures, wiring and transformer. You can easily add a second lighting kit if you need to expand the landscaping lighting system.