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My house was built in 2018. The smoke alarms are low voltage. I remember the electrician, who installed them, told me they are DC. Thermostats and doorbells ar
by gwbas1c 5y ago
My house was built in 2018. The smoke alarms are low voltage. I remember the electrician, who installed them, told me they are DC.
Thermostats and doorbells are low-voltage AC. The transformer is standard. If you can find 24-volt AC lights, an open-minded electrician should be able to figure it out.
Related: My old house built in the 1960s had an intercom system that was ripped out by a previous owner. I found a warm transformer attached to a bare bulb light socket in the basement with nothing else running from it. I happily removed it.
- hollerith 5y agoLEDs will flicker (worse than old-school fluorescent lights did) when directly connected to 60Hz AC.