What Does Low Voltage Lighting Transformer Do?
Some things are not very easy to explain. I’m trying to figure out why my husband does some of the things he does around the house. His current project involves a low voltage lighting transformer. The very name of this item conjures images of Saturday morning children’s shows and toys.
Describing the function of a low voltage lighting transformer was no easy task for my husband. It was an even bigger task for me to grasp the concept. However, I have good reason for the confusion. Sometimes a person can be too knowledgeable about a subject to be able to explain it to a layman. My husband works with electrical supplies and what not every day. He rarely has an opportunity to break the tasks and concepts down to small steps.
I thought that I would do him a great favor in requesting a step-by-step task analysis on how a low voltage lighting transformer functions for our home. This gracious offer was met with a blank stare that showed promise of upcoming confusion within a few sentences.
He started his stance on avoiding the entire discussion about the low voltage lighting transformer by stating that I would not be interested in such things. Low voltage lighting transformer talk is so very boring. He added his old avoidance argument, “I don’t talk shop at home.â€
However, with a few nudges and some coaxing or what you may refer to as nagging, I finally got him to try and explain his most current home improvement project. He tried to begin with the textbook definition of a low voltage lighting transformer. Then he realized what it felt like to be on the receiving end of a blank stare.
The next step was to use some useful analogy that would bring things to light for me. He chose drills. He reminded me that I bought him a 12 volt cordless drill for his birthday and I reminded him that we returned the item to get an 18 volt cordless drill. He compared a regular electrical unit to the 18 volt drill and the low voltage lighting transformer to its 12 volt counterpart.
I was really confused and he was really annoyed when I asked him why on earth he would want to replace a high voltage system with a low voltage lighting transformer. After all, the higher volt drill was better. He shook his head and tried another route. He starting with, “Let’s say you have two curling irons…â€
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