Fusing down for quinetic

[MattBaigent]

Evening all,

Hope your doing well.

After some opinions, friend of mine has recently moved into a new (for him) house and the porch lights kept tripping the RCD, checked it out and someone had added the porch light but had the N going back the the earth.

I’ve said that I can fit a quinetic switch spured from a socket along the wall and run it outside and then the light can be controlled via the phone etc and that I’ll get a materials list for him.

My plan was to fit a weatherproof unswitched fuse spur outside from a socket inside, and next to it, the same branded 2 gang socket but with a blanking plate in and with the quinetic switch behind (any advice on whether there’ll be enough room? I usually fit them in a Wiska box.)
But thinking about those quinetic switches, they are already fused so in theory, would I need the Unswitched fuse spur or would people still install them to be able to isolate when necessary?

Hopefully that makes sense, feel like I’ve waffles on for a bit,

Thanks,

Matt

 

[Mikegh]

I would still fuse the quinetic separately at 13amp via spur or plug

 

[MattBaigent]

I would still fuse the quinetic separately at 13amp via spur or plug

Cool, thanks. I had planned to do that but thought I’d be able to make it a bit more discreet on the outside with just the one IP box.

Do you think I’d get the WiFi receiver (comfortably) in the back of a 2 gang external socket with a blanking plate.