long distance driveway lighting

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Stevenfyeager

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United States, Indiana
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electrical contractor
Customer has 230' between house and barn driveway. Also has at least a 500' driveway to the county road. Any advice on how to illuminate these ?
They don't seem to be worried with costs on this job. What's the max length low voltage landscape lights can go ? Thanks !
 

qcroanoke

Sometimes I don't know if I'm the boxer or the bag
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Roanoke, VA.
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Sorta retired........
Unless they only want low voltage I would go with line voltage and led bulbs.
And I agree with pton on the vd formula
 

WSG

MN elec contractor
Location
Minnesota
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Electrician & Contracor
Start by thinking about#10 AWG. Also start with a voltage drop calculation.
Maybe another service/transformer for the driveway lighting. Long term, it would be better.
 

WSG

MN elec contractor
Location
Minnesota
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Electrician & Contracor
Reading it again.

Those are long lengths for residence wiring. Think outside of the box.
 
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