Outside lights

[gary234]

Hi

I have recently moved into a new house. i'm no expert when it comes to electrics, but i know the basics. There is an outside light which i need some advice on. It is fed from the garage by a standard 1.5 T&E through some round black PVC trunking to what looks like a weather proof box. The cable then just runs from the box, via a gland to the light. SO the last 6 inches of cable are exposed to the elements.

Is this OK?? It looks like they have gone to lots of trouble to put in the trunking and weather proof box and gland. IS this OK to keep it like this or is there something i can do to improve it?? The light doesn't have any knockouts big enough for the conduit, so i can see why they used cable, but thought they would have used weatherproof cable??

Any help/advice/thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[cagedanimal2010]

may well be rubber cable, in which case this is fine.

Danny

 

[polo1]

In the grand scheme of things not much to worry about. Is the external light metal or plastic?; if the former, has the cpc been connected through to the light fitting?; is the circuit protected by an RCD/RCBO? These are the issues I'd be looking at.

Regards.

 

[gary234]

Thanks for your reply. The External light is plastic and the CPC is connected through. It does also run from a RCD.

 

[polo1]

Looks like you are cooking with gas!

If the visible cable from the conduit box to the light is just t&e, you could swap it over to a rubber flex (remember to isolate & test the circuit first for dead).

 

[Engineer54]

Probably stopped the conduit at a WP box, and connected a cable to the light fitting because the entry into the light fitting didn't support a conduit entry. This would certainly be the case on most PIR controlled flood light type fittings...

 

[Marvo]

Might even be that the light fitting was supplied with a cable. Either way I wouldn't loose any sleep if it's supplied by RCD and the earth is connected.