Can someone recommend a dimmable step light? I've been searching the internet and can't really seem to find what I'm looking for. I've found step lights, but none that have tan wall plate, I'm trying to match the other wall plates. All I can find is brass, black and white.

Can someone recommend a dimmable step light? I've been searching the internet and can't really seem to find what I'm looking for. I've found step lights, but none that have tan wall plate, I'm trying to match the other wall plates. All I can find is brass, black and white.

This the one I used, maybe you can paint them to match.
http://www.prolighting.com/noname.html


Bud

Can someone recommend a dimmable step light? I've been searching the internet and can't really seem to find what I'm looking for. I've found step lights, but none that have tan wall plate, I'm trying to match the other wall plates. All I can find is brass, black and white.

I use them all over the place on my outdoor theater. They are low voltage and I replaced the seven watt bulbs with four watt ones. They really don't cause a problem and I leave them on all the time so people won't trip or fall.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/timtimes/2210053392/in/set-72157603204872782

Where did you get them from?

I got my low voltage step lights from either/or Lowes and Home Depot. I think they are branded Malibu Lighting. Dam things aren't cheap. I paid around 15 bucks a light, but I see them marked at 18 bucks now. They are made for and come with 7 watt 12v landscape bulbs. I'm pretty sure you could find them much cheaper if you shopped online. I just bought them as I built my deck, which, in the end, took me a little over a year and resulted in at least four different levels and something like 15 steps.

I replaced the seven watt whites with four watt blues, but not so much to cut the light output (negligible/no effect on screen image) but to save a little wear and tear on one of the many 12v transformers I am using to power my outdoor lighting. (I probably have over a grand in outdoor landscape lighting and run three separate transformers). You save fifty watts replacing (15) seven watt bulbs with 4 watt bulbs. I did the same swap with my half moon downlights, of which I also have about 15, but I didn't use colored bulbs.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/timtimes/2627993599/

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Here's a picture of my screen which is mounted on a lattice fence enclosure I built within the confines of my back yard (now known as the 'inner sanctum'. There are 23 lights on that section of fence, though I think three of the top lights are obscured by the top of my screen. They are all lit. Pay attention to the uplights I have in the planter box I built directly below the screen. Even they don't wash the picture out, though I usually shut them off during viewing, there really is no need to.

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http://flickr.com/photos/timtimes/2627935075/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/timtimes/3000859266/

Enjoy.