we replaced it all. Pal trio lights, transformer, and remote. My PB installed basically free. I paid costs on lights. they took Carvins loose from inside pool and loose at old carvin transformer. tied a nylon string to old carvin wire by transformer, and pulled Carvin light out of pool underwater. Wire, string and all. Tied Treo light to string and pulled in back thru. mount new transformer, wired it. done. remote and lights all synched on power up. The thought is that water inside conduit helps cool lights. We used PAL brand instead of SR Smith.
PAL trio 2T4 (length). in our case it was 2T4 150. Transformer is a PAL color Touch PCR-8U. remote almost looks the same. That transformer can be ordered with a wireless upgrade and you can use ur phone and their remote.
don't expect a huge difference in Brightness from when ur Carvins were new. I talked to Carvin on phone a few times, they were gonna replace em again i think. With the same thing, same problem. They know.
The body on the Treo is very short compared to carvin. I'm expecting way less heat.
PB says these are the best so far. Tried and true if you will. he advised me against every other brand. esp Hayward.
feel free to PM me if you need anything. From ur zip code you look close by. feel free to come look.
