220V environment

what 220V electricity issues?

make you own COB light

as most can run on 12-18 volts easy

 

what problems are you envisioning 220v causing?

Follow up question- do you actually mean 220? The places Iv assumed you might be from your posts, are as far as Im aware nominally 230v.
Off the top of my head I can only think of one 220 in that region, and if your there your growing exploits are even more brave than we thought.

 

COB- Chip on board
as opposed to SMD- surface mount device.

SMD is LEDs (light emitting diodes) soldered directly on to a PCB (printed circuit board) COB is a chip that has an array of multiple LEDs. Confused enough yet?

 

You really should have got European / UK stuff then all you'd need to do would be change the plug.

Iv not looked at the link, an additional concern would be the frequency. North America use 60hz, Europe and the majority of places I'm assuming you might be use 50hz. Digital dimmers strike me as the type of thing that might be fussy about that given the way they work is tied to the waveform of the power.
Changing frequency, if it's needed, is a big deal, the equipment is expensive, hard to find, pretty inefficient, would probably need cooling at that load even in my climate... Just a bad idea.

If it is just voltage you probably need a bigger step down transformer than you think. Those small ones that are meant for builders tools etc will say it does x watts, expect that to be about a 10% lie anyway, then the fine print will say something like 1/4 duty cycle meaning for 15 minutes run flat out it needs 45 to cool down, for tools this is normally fine you drill a few minutes, stop a bit, Move about, start again, it's fine. For lighting that needs to be on for hours at a time it won't work. I have seen these melt before.
By the time you've found somthing that is either so oversized it dosnt mind running constant at say 5% load or one with 100% duty cycle it's a) going to be expensive and b) you risk killing the little labourer boy who has to carry a 200kg lump of metal up your stairs to then find it dosnt fit through your door.
I'd also say 95% of the electricians here wouldn't know where to source a tranny of that size, so good luck there.

 

So iv been going around with a feeling in my head that there was something weird about that picture that I hadnt placed. And its just hit me that those sockets, in addition to being fucking weird, arnt the ones I thought you'd have. which may change answers to questions like this.

If thats what I think it is (the dual 10/16amp Type L,or at least was until before it got overloaded) am I right in thinking that puts you in a country with two stars on the middle row of its flag? (I appreciate your security issues, hence asking in such a round about way, if you really want you could answer that by pm which id delete right after reading).

Iv googeled that light/dimmer, its listed on the uk version of amazon as claiming to do 120 and 240v, presuming you got the same model and theres not a few international variants Id take that to mean its a switch-mode power supply before the dimming, no mention of frequency. So It could well be just a matter of changing a plug or fining a travel adaptor meant for americans visiting italy/chillie/uraguay/maldieves.

 

Well thats good to know. youve got some sense left at least

strugling to think of anywhere else with deserts that (officially) uses type L sockets... however the list of countries with deserts that I wouldnt be surprised to find socket types the IEC claims they dont use there.. well its pretty much all of the countries with deserts.

 

On the question of a better cover story, you can easily say your going to grow your own vegetables indoors. Allot of people do that. And use the same equipment we do for cannabis