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Mar 04, 2010 from Rein Electric
Working on getting a landscape lighting job. Sound yard will be lit with led lights and only consume 125 watts! Led Lights are awesome
Intermatic ML300RTW Malibu 300-Watt Power Pack with Timer and Ground Shield
List Price: $107.00
Price: $76.99 You Save:$30.01 (28%)
Product Details
Mechanical multiple on/off timer
6-year circumscribed warranty
Coverts 120-volt AC to 12-volt AC power
Customer Reviews
Intermatic ML300RTW Malibu 300-Watt Transformer
Although I've not place this transformer at this writing, I've opened the package and read the manual. The unit appears to be sturdy and well-built. Most of my lights to be connected are LED and should not add up to anywhere just about the capactiy of this transforner, but I did want one that could handle whatever else I intend to connect in the future. There will be a combination of assorted lights including a gas lamp chore being converted to low voltage, concrete pagoda, rock lights, solar pagodas converted to low voltage, etc. The locality being covered includes front, back and side yards. This project has been in the planning stages for over a year mainly due to locating the becoming fixtures to create the look I wanted. The gas lamp post is being converted from natural gas to low voltage using a kit, but not all of the unified including parts because I'm integrating with the rest of the lighting. The solar pagodas are being converted by extracting parts from available LED fixtures and retrofitting into the pagodas. Had intended to realize "ready-to-go" fixtures, but these just aren't available anywhere. The lighting is primarily intended to highlight various landscape features such as several fountains, birdhouses, etc. along with pathlights. The without a scratch system will be controlled by this transformer with the optional photocell. I'm a hardcore DIY person and not timid in experimenting or doing what had not been done before.Intermatic ML300RTW Malibu 300-Watt Power Accumulation with Timer and Ground Shield
Worthy but not great!
This transformer is well made but lacks worldliness.It is extremely heavy and uses an antiquated pin system to turn the lights on and off.The pins are small and can be easily vanished making the unit unusable. The pins need to be adjusted constantly as the seasons change with longer or shorter sunshine. Why no automatic light sensor to adjust to seasonal change?Who wants to constantly adjust these microscopic pins all the time,not me.I understand that sensors can be added but thats a pain why not build it into the product or catalogue it??
2010-08-27
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3
Superb disappointed
I purchased this article the Intermatic ML300RTW low voltage transformer in August of this year, 2010. This was the fourth one which was purchased between July and August of 2010. All four items trained similar problem. To Amazon.com credit, they did replace the items promptly. The problem is that the clock slows down considerably as much as 4 to 5 hours behind plan. This was after an average of 2 to 3 days after being placed in service. The transformer was used to power my driveway lights.
The last point was sent back to Intermatic for replacements. They refuse to honor a 2 day delivery as was done by Amazon.com saying that it was too costly. It was now 4 days and I am still waiting for the replacement from Intermatic. I found Intermatic very inexpert and unresponsive. I would avoid their products at all cost. If the replacement does not work this time, I will just ask for a refund.
2010-08-21
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1
skilled item
Superlative item, easy to install. Definately worth the money. Very happy with my purchase.
2010-08-06
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
zealous timer
This is an noteworthy timer for a great price with 300 watts of power.
It is running all my landscaping lights in the front yard
and I also have wattage apartment to expand in the future.
2010-07-28
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
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Impediment out these easy tips on how you can install outdoor landscape lighting!
Illuminated paths and accented trees can create a magical mood in the garden ... Kansas City Star
17.01.10
The break lights are packed away, but the cheer they bring doesn’t have to disappear: Outdoor lighting is a alight idea that sparkles year-round. At any season — but especially in winter — thoughtfully placed alfresco lights bring your garden to life.</p><p>Forget about blinding spotlights on the garage doors and runway-elegance footlights along the front walk. Outdoor lighting professionals know how to shine the lights on exterior features that signification and make them memorable.</p><p>“Outdoor lighting is done wrong so many times, it’s just kind of an maltreated art,” says John Pletcher, owner of Natural Accents, a lighting-design company in Privilege. “No lighting at all is better than bad lighting, but a landscape that is properly lit — you go into it and it’s just magical.” </p><p>Pletcher often collaborates with garden designers at Miller’s Landscaping and Sward Care in Parkville. Lauren Moore, one of Miller’s designers, encourages clients to take into account night lighting to highlight striking features and create dramatic shadows.</p><p>“From a functional position, it opens up your outdoor living space,” Moore says, “but lights revelry an invaluable aesthetic role as well. In the winter months, the mixture of subtle highlights and theatrical shadows … brings the outdoors interior, where it’s nice and warm.”</p><p>Terrific outdoor lighting should really be part of every good garden envisage right from the start, says Tia Browning, a landscape architect and co-owner of Earth Expressions. Browning and her companion, Laura Assyia, often collaborate with lighting designer Rick Branson, owner of Landscape Images in Overland Estate, to put a shine on their clients’ gardens after dark. Well-lit landscaping adds depth and dimension to the knowledge of a garden, Browning says: When the lights are right, “your heart warms up.”</p><p>Garden designers have redoubtable opinions about lighting because outdoor lights and beautifully designed gardens naturally go hand in hand. Good-looking garden features such as a particularly sculptural tree, a fountain or a rugged stone wall can be straight as handsome at night as they are during the daytime. You don’t want to overdo it, but proper lighting shows them off gently and gracefully without attracting every mosquito in the neighborhood in the summer and without throwing conspicuous beams in your neighbors’ windows.</p><p>Of course, outdoor lighting also can make your home and garden safer, but well-designed method lights do more than show visitors the way to the front door. They make the approach more interesting by setting up a play of light and shadows. The fixtures are often private, so you find yourself following the path and enjoying the experience, not marching in step with a chorus line of mushroom-shaped lampshades. </p><p>Janet Lennox Moyer, a lighting architect in New York, has been working on the art and craft of landscape lighting for 35 years, since before high-tech, low-voltage lighting systems were within reach. Her presentations, workshops and books have influenced a generation of lighting designers, including Pletcher, who has twice attended her Landscape Lighting Organization.</p><p> Designers today are at another change point, Moyer says, as LED lamps challenge the multifaceted reflector halogen lamps (or MR lamps) that have become archetype in the landscape lighting business.</p><p>“The changes in the last two years are really phenomenal,” Moyer says. She favors MR lamps for their versatility and says designers using them have more ways to spread the beams and check the effects. These lamps also give off a warm white light, more natural than the cool light from LED lamps. But, she notes, “changes are occasion so fast, your head spins.”
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Landscape lighting?
May 12, 2007 by twogirlygirls | Posted in Garden & Landscape
We recently purchased our building and some of the outdoor lighting is not working. These lights focus on trees in our yard. There are missing lights in some of them. Can we just take over from the bulb in the shell of the current system? Anything we need to be aware of? What are we looking for exactly?
1) Alfresco lighting fixtures, like indoor lighting fixtures are rated for a maximum wattage. Determine the maximum wattage of your fixtures and do not outpace this wattage when replacing bulbs.
2) Determine the fixtures on each outdoor circuit.
3) Determine the operating voltage of each of your outside lighting circuits. Some outdoor lighting transformers support multiple votage taps. This allows a designer to use voltages from 12 - 24 volts (in a Federal Electrical Code defined low voltage system). A transformer that conforms to the UL 1858 standard will be limited to 12 - 15 volt taps.
4) Adjudge the wire size of each circuit.
5) Determine the total wattage on each circuit with the intended replacement bulbs. If this wattage exceeds 180 watts on a 12 volt outline, you will have to use lower wattage replacement bulbs. Circuits at higher voltages will have different maximum wattage capacities. Rightful remember that the National Elecrical Codes specifies a maximum of 15 amps for 12/2 copper wiring. Adust the apex amperage used for your calculations if the wiring is something other than 12/2. Remember that there is enough current in a low voltage lighting system to melt the insulation off your wiring and potentially source a fire. Please do not overload circuits.
6) Now that you know the wattage that you will need for a replacement bulb, determine the bulb fount needed for each fixture. There are several bulb styles (Par36, MR16, T3, etc.) used in outdoor lighting fixtures. Look at the device's socket to determine this. If you can not tell, look at another fixture to see what bulb type has been used.
7) For each bulb fount and wattage rating, there are different light patterns available (flood, spot, narrow acne, etc.). Now determine the light pattern you need for each replacement bulb.
8) Halogen bulbs control in a narrow voltage range (10.8 - 12.5 volts). Operating a halogen bulb outside of this number negatively affects the light output & shortens its life. When just one bulb burns out in an outside lighting system, all the bulbs on that circuit can be over voltaged compromising their longevity. For this reason, it is suggested that you replace all bulbs on the same course at the same time.
9) Body oils can negatively affect the longevity of halogen bulbs. Use latex gloves when handling bulbs.
10) Moisture is the the opposition of outdoor lighting systems. Lubricate the bulb contacts with a good eletrical conducting dielectric grease before replacing any bulb.
11) Substitute the bulbs in your circuit.
12) Now measure the operating voltage at each bulb to insure that they are operationg at the proper voltage go.
13) Measure the current on each circuit to insure that you have not exceeded the safe and recommended current limits.
14) Weight the current at the primary side of the transformer to insure that the total load on the transformer has not exceeded the manufacture's limit.
15) Remain alert back and enjoy the beauty of your working outdoor lighting system. It's just that simple!
Or you could call a professional outdoor lighting adept. Good luck.
A Well Lit Garden | May 12, 2007
If these are wire strung lights, you could start by replacing the bulb. If that doesn't toil, there might be a bare wire someplace or your transformer could be bad.
If these are solar, you should start by replacing the batteries.
Sandra G | May 12, 2007
Take over from the non-working bulbs first. That will help you figure out if you have wiring problems. If the bulb doesn't do the take then open up the body of it to see if the wiring is still attached. Good luck!
Orlando | May 12, 2007
1) Open-air lighting fixtures, like indoor lighting fixtures are rated for a maximum wattage. Determine the maximum wattage of your fixtures and do not beat this wattage when replacing bulbs.
2) Determine the fixtures on each outdoor circuit.
3) Determine the operating voltage of each of your open-air lighting circuits. Some outdoor lighting transformers support multiple votage taps. This allows a designer to use voltages from 12 - 24 volts (in a Nationalist Electrical Code defined low voltage system). A transformer that conforms to the UL 1858 standard will be limited to 12 - 15 volt taps.
4) Conclude the wire size of each circuit.
5) Determine the total wattage on each circuit with the intended replacement bulbs. If this wattage exceeds 180 watts on a 12 volt edge, you will have to use lower wattage replacement bulbs. Circuits at higher voltages will have different maximum wattage capacities. Just now remember that the National Elecrical Codes specifies a maximum of 15 amps for 12/2 copper wiring. Adust the top amperage used for your calculations if the wiring is something other than 12/2. Remember that there is enough current in a low voltage lighting system to melt the insulation off your wiring and potentially effect a fire. Please do not overload circuits.
6) Now that you know the wattage that you will need for a replacement bulb, determine the bulb fount needed for each fixture. There are several bulb styles (Par36, MR16, T3, etc.) used in outdoor lighting fixtures. Look at the fitment's socket to determine this. If you can not tell, look at another fixture to see what bulb type has been used.
7) For each bulb paradigm and wattage rating, there are different light patterns available (flood, spot, narrow mote, etc.). Now determine the light pattern you need for each replacement bulb.
8) Halogen bulbs control in a narrow voltage range (10.8 - 12.5 volts). Operating a halogen bulb outside of this cooker negatively affects the light output & shortens its life. When just one bulb burns out in an out of doors lighting system, all the bulbs on that circuit can be over voltaged compromising their longevity. For this reason, it is suggested that you replace all bulbs on the same periphery at the same time.
9) Body oils can negatively affect the longevity of halogen bulbs. Use latex gloves when handling bulbs.
10) Moisture is the contender of outdoor lighting systems. Lubricate the bulb contacts with a good eletrical conducting dielectric grease before replacing any bulb.
11) Renew the bulbs in your circuit.
12) Now measure the operating voltage at each bulb to insure that they are operationg at the proper voltage extent.
13) Measure the current on each circuit to insure that you have not exceeded the safe and recommended current limits.
14) Dole out the current at the primary side of the transformer to insure that the total load on the transformer has not exceeded the manufacture's limit.
15) Trace back and enjoy the beauty of your working outdoor lighting system. It's just that simple!
Or you could call a professional outdoor lighting authority. Good luck.
A Well Lit Garden | May 12, 2007
Landscape lighting? Does anyone know of a company that can help with lighting design?
Sep 14, 2006 by Richard H | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)
I know the wiring and voltage drop etc... I need help with the lighting design. I want to light up the front of my almshouse (stone face)(wall wash & columns) and do some up lighting and down lighting on trees (moon lighting effect) (wooded lot -likeable mature trees). I've seen some really nice lighting in my area and understand the concepts but desideratum help in knowing what kind of fixtures and bulbs - also placement.
Any suggestion on a good company? Minnesota - Couple Cities
ELS (Supervision Lighting Solutions) They helped me out. It's great you can send them photos and they can even draw right on them to let you know where to put the fixtures. I was impressed with their understanding on how to light different areas. I had gone through a couple of different landscape contractor but they didn't seem to grasp much about the different techniques, they just wanted to sell me fixtures.
Good luck. (I think they are up in your neck of the woods)
backhome101 | Sep 14, 2006
Does anyone know of any reasonably priced solar powered landscape lighting that DOES NOT use batteries?
Mar 28, 2008 by Captain Flatulence | Posted in Garden & Landscape
I've heard of lights that use capacitors but have only found them in paver genre applications. I am looking for traditional "stake" lighting.
no, thats how solar works you use the sun to injunction batt, then use the power at night, I have a set of 12 that i got thru Harbor freight 3 yrs ago there still working,
they were around $20
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Foresight JournalArt Scene by Bill Van Siclen: Retrospective sheds rich light on Providence Journal, RIWhat makes the “Unremitting Landscape” series especially noteworthy — and what lifts Sgouros and his work above a mere be conscious of-good story — is the way the theme-and-variations approach forces you to pay attention to even the subtlest of changes.
The Brace-Standard - Syracuse.comPrisms bring light and art to East Genesee StreetThe Post-Guideline - Syracuse.com, NYThe winning team included students with majors ranging from landscape architecture at ESF to theater to fiber arts. "When you see the finished occupation, it gives you an idea of how intersecting students from many different disciplines can produce dynamic,