need to find out how to wire a transformer and outdoor lighting?step by step?

i installed outdoor lighting and im not sure if my wiring is right because i get a huge voltage drop. someone keeps telling me to loop the wiring and im not too sure what they are talking about. if someone can h thank you

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1. Looping the wiring means connect both ends of the wiring together....ex: you have a 20ft wire....you connect one end to the transformer and tape up the other end,or bury it etc. so instead of tape it or burying it run the end back to the transformer so you have a "loop" or closed circuit. However if the lights keep cycling on and off it means that the transformer is overloaded. a quick fix is basically just add 1 or 2 more lights to lower the voltage going back into the transformer.
2. Mixman is correct when describing a loop. The one thing you must be careful of is to connect the same wire to the same terminal at the transformer or you will have a short circuit and nothing will work. You do not mention how long the distribution wire is or how many lights are on the circuit. It could just be that there are too many lights and each light will cause a voltage drop. Since you are dealing with low voltage lighting the lights at the end of the circuit have the lowest voltage. By looping the distribution wire, you feed the transformer output into each end instead of just one. Just make sure that you do not cross the wires.
3. first of all so i can be clear on this... you have an outdoor lighting system, it comes with a transformer with built in timer (most models), wiring, lights and more importantly, directions. if this is a system that is used and you want to set it up this is what you do. place the transformer/timer in the area that you will plug it in, just don't plug it in yet, place the fixtures where you want them, run the wire along from the transformer to the fixtures, leaving enough slack to actually connect the fixture up, note this on the wire, it should have ridges on one side and a smooth surface on the other, the ridge side is the "white or neutral side" of the power supply and the smooth side is the "black or hot side" of the power supply these all have to be inserted the exact same way to each fixture in order for it to work correctly. the connectors on the fixtures should have a silver pin which will be white/neutral and a brass pin black/hot side, you insert the wire into the connector smooth to the brass pin, ridged to the white side then close the cover repeat this for all fixtures. then go to the transformer/timer and isolate the hot and neutral sides and wire it up then plug it in and turn it on. then when everything seems to be working ok set the timer to what your heart desires. good luck.