Sorry for being so low-tech - I have a kitchen range exhaust fan with lights built into it which are just ridiculous. For some reason the manufacturer thought that 2 X 2 Watt LED lamps were adequate lighting. They barely qualify as night lights. No wonder this super expensive-looking hood was so cheap!
The lamps are switched from a solid-state control panel. It occured to me that I could take the power to the LED lamps, cut them and use them to control a 120v power relay, and then plug in proper halogen lamps (which I would mount in place of the LED lamps). This way I would still be controlling the lamps from the control panel and it would not look like I had jury-rigged anything.
Any ideas on how to accomplish this? One cocnerm is - of course - not frying the control panel from spikes as the relay turns on and off.
Help would be appreciated and - if you can't already tell - my knowledge of electronics is limited.
Thanks,
Crash
The lamps are switched from a solid-state control panel. It occured to me that I could take the power to the LED lamps, cut them and use them to control a 120v power relay, and then plug in proper halogen lamps (which I would mount in place of the LED lamps). This way I would still be controlling the lamps from the control panel and it would not look like I had jury-rigged anything.
Any ideas on how to accomplish this? One cocnerm is - of course - not frying the control panel from spikes as the relay turns on and off.
Help would be appreciated and - if you can't already tell - my knowledge of electronics is limited.
Thanks,
Crash