12V V 24V

Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Location: Brisbane

Will a 24V light work when connected to 12V? Will it work at all or just be half strength?

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 7:51 pm

It'll work, it just won't be bright. What are you trying to do?

Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Location: Brisbane

It will work but instead of being, say 100w it will be only 50w.

Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Location: Brisbane

I bought a sealed worklight from Queensland Diesel Spares (a truck acc. store for the southerners) and connected it straight to the battery and nothing happened. There is no indication of what voltage or wattage it is either so I thought that maybe it was 24V and this prevented it form working. Maybe it needs a relay Question

Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Location: Brisbane

MAybe the globe is blown Idea

Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Location: Brisbane

It doesn't sound like there's anything rattling around inside and as I said it's sealed with a rubber outer too Exclamation

Might have to have another play Very Happy

Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Location: Brisbane

Just put a continuity tester across it.

Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Location: Sitting on Miss Janes lap.

COULD IT HAVE SOME SORT OF INTERNAL ELECTRODE THAT REQUIRES 24v TO FIRE IT UP Question

Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Location: Brisbane, Australia

Guts wrote:

It will work but instead of being, say 100w it will be only 50w.

Actually it'll be a lot less, a Halogen lamp can loose 30% of it's output by only losing 10% voltage.

Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: North East Melbourne

Drafty wrote:

COULD IT HAVE SOME SORT OF INTERNAL ELECTRODE THAT REQUIRES 24v TO FIRE IT UP Question

doubt it, unless its an arc lamp (like the one they use to put batmans symbol in the sky)

Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Location: Brisbane

I didn't realise that this thread was still kicking Cool

I went back to the place where I bought the lamp from and aparently it isn't a sealed light Embarassed

so they sold me a bulb for it. I asked about fitting it and they said that you just pull off the rubber surround. I have since tried a couple of times but decided that it wasn't going to happen and it is still sitting on the shed floor Very Happy

So yeah, the problem is the user Embarassed

Thanks for the replies

Joined: 08 Mar 2004

M8 what i would do is go to Queensland Diesel Spares and buy a couple (narva bull lamps) like they have on the semi's i have 2 100w pencil beams on my truck and they are awesome? and planning to put another 2 right beside e'm that'll light her up !!!!!! Laughing

Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: North East Melbourne

too bad ya cant see over them! Laughing

nah they are pretty damn good specially when my old man got 2 for 30 bucks each, brand new!

and they are bright as hell. and if you plan on going to any BnS balls, the people there will compliment you on the size... ...of your lights.