They is also LED lights, no heat, next to no current draw.
You seem to undertand the pros and cons, you have kind of answered your own question.
At the end of the day, doesn't looks play a part? Cos if someone put Fluoro Downlights in my new house i would shoot them. I guess they are fine if you have to meet some kind of "Green Energy Rating", but i have not seen that yet.....
Elec Transforner loses are stuff all these days, they are not the iron core monsters of years ago.
So you can rule out control gear loses all together.
You can NOT dim a Fluoro lamp, so if you want dimmers anywhere, toss that idea out the window.
240V downlights are out there, but lamps are expensive and quite frankly, who the hell uses tham anyway???
So you are down to what is install everyday in 99% of domestic houses around the country.
The humble 12V 50 or 20 Watt dicroic downlight fitting.
They are cheap to buy, They are dimmable, They make heat, They ok on power consumption and the light colour range will be more appealling. You can buy different focus lamps and different coloured lamps and you can even buy them at the supermarket when you are getting milk. And best of all, they come in biggest range of any light fitting on the market.
Or, go to the bank, pull out some serious cash, and install LED lights everywhere, they are cool, they are super cheap to run, their light output is intense, you will never change a lamp in your life!
Best advise, go talk to the sparky thats doing your job, he works with lights EVERYDAY of his life.
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