Malibu landscape lights do not work!?

I hooked the transformer up, hooked the first wires in to a and b and spliced the lights in and nothing. They are the ones from home depot, it comes with 4 little spotlights. Any ideas?

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1. Use a meter and see if it putting out voltage on the a and b terminals, if not take it back, also if it is putting out voltage check the bulbs, you can also check that the wire is good.
2. I have used a bunch of those and never had any problem-----suggest that you put the transformer (tsf.) on a work table and plug-in to 110v outlet and take one fixture and use it to test the tsf. to see that it is functioning properly____ if not--- return it to the H.D. store and start over with same test----- those wires are hard to seat into the black cable and sometimes you have to ice-pick a hole into the cable to make a good connection to the 12volt tsf and the lamp fixture____ check the connectors ,,,one at a time .........there are different lamp to cable connections .....some of them are better than others______ they will do a nice job of lighting your front steps or the driveway edge don't get discouraged -- end result is worth the labor........
3. It is probably where you connect the wire to the fixture. Those damn little clamping connections rarely work the first time, sometimes you have to reposition and even skin the wire a bit for them to connect.