You can buy the battery operated candles at Bed,Bath & Beyond, A.C. Moore's, Michael's, Plow & Hearth and they are wonderful. That is all we use anymore in our house. We live in a Sr. Citizens community and about 3 yrs. ago there was a bad fire in a garden apt. one windy Jan. night started by a plastic coffee maker being put on a burner that was on by mistake. A man lost his death because he went back into his first floor apt. to get some important papers and the ceiling from the apt. on fire fell on him and killed him. They had to tear the entire building down and rebuild it. Every since then, we only use the battery operated ones. They have some that are scented and the outside feels like real wax. They have a lot of hours of use, something like 100 or 500 before you have to replace the batteries. They are LED lights. Candles that come in lots of colors plus white and off white.

That is my question, HU-773166389. My late husband, deceased 9 years now, built a brick will with 6 pillars and wired 2 for lighting along with landscape lighting. Sadly he passed before completing everything. I purchased limestone caps and 120v pillar lighting fixtures a couple of years ago but just located a brick layer pointer who will place the caps. He noticed that the wiring is LV in the pillars. As he revisited it, I recalled the questions that I had when I originally purchased the fixtures. I would want to use LV-LED bulbs anyway. Nothing is wired into the breaker box yet, but to run new wire would be a major investment as there are brick walkways that run from the house to the the where the pillars are. I am hoping from reading this that I will be able to have the electrician wire the 120 fixture directly to the 12 volt landscape wire that ia wired to a transformer and install a 4-10 watt bulb in each. and be done. Just need confirmation.

What I have now is low-voltage xenon lights with internal transformers inside each fixture. I'm looking at replacing them because of continual problems, like multiple burned-out bulbs and a burned-out transformer after 16 months, and innards so full of wires and wire nuts that the fixtures pop apart if I removed the glass diffusers (or spontaneously in the case of the smallest strip.) Judging from online reviews, these are common problems with the model that I have. We have line voltage coming out of the walls for the three separate runs of lights, all on the same circuit. If I understand correctly, the electrician can use the existing wiring to install either low-voltage lights with internal transformers (NOT the same brand!) or line-voltage lights. I bought the lights we have based on looks, function, and the showroom salesman's recommendation. Never would have thought to ask to see the inside of the fixture, though.

fluorescent bulbs under cabinets will be T4 or T5 ; these are long and thin -- think of light sticks, not round / spot / pucks. I gave you search terms. I'm sure you will find out stuff. All bulbs generate Some_Heat; the wattage is a key indicator of heat. Xenons are in the same family as halogens and old-fashioned incandescents (the bulbs we had in the 20th century), which is not efficient technology in terms of producing light (as opposed to heat). Searching, I read that xenons are only 10% cooler compared to regular halogens. That is still Hot. So incandescents, all types including xenon-halogen, make more heat than the other means of producing light (fluorescents and LED's). Fluorescents give more lumen (light) and less heat than the incandescent family (xenons, halogens). Fluorescents come in the range of 6 watts to 25 watts; that is fewer watts than the incandescent family needs. Incandescents use more watts to match the lumen, and the extra electricity goes into heat production. They are a heater and a light. LED's come in the range of a fraction of a watt. LED's are lowest wattage but they are so weak they don't produce much lumen (light). So they are good for accent lighting. If you buy large numbers you will get more light. you would have to install hundreds of them, to match the 1000+ lumen output of fluo or incandescent. Has anyone out there installed a hundred LED's under a cabinet? HTH -david