mistaforty
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There was a whole string of landscaping lights out on my property shortly after we bought the house. The people that installed the landscaping and irrigation came out and said you need a new transformer looks like a lightning strike... $700. ok cool. first home and semi handy, i decide to investigate it and figure out that its not that complicated pretty much plug and play. I figure out that I need a 300w low voltage transformer get online and see that its only $200 (the cheaper ones i saw had bad reviews) so i order it. I get it go outside and realize I dont have enough com terminals and that i really needed a 600w transformer because the existing transformers are both 300 x2. ok well lets test the terminals and see whos gettin power and just use 300w from wichever existing transformer has a live com and 300w from the new one. turns out all the terminals are live on BOTH old transformers. well hell whats wrong? go around to the lights: all the damn bulbs are burnt out. so im not sure whether to be more upset at them trying to get me for $700 for a $300 unit or them trying to get me for $700 for a problem that really only needed $70 worth of lights. sometimes I pay for shyt cuz i dont have time to do it not because i CANT do it. but if i cant trust a pro to even diagnose the problem right then wtf?