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I dont call that a 13A socket which a 2/3KW appliance can be plugged in potentially. lolYes we do, we commonly have smoke alarms on lighting circuits.
Come on Daz
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I dont call that a 13A socket which a 2/3KW appliance can be plugged in potentially. lolYes we do, we commonly have smoke alarms on lighting circuits.
I dont call that a 13A socket which a 2/3KW appliance can be plugged in potentially. lol
Come on Daz
We did think is was 1kw or 500WMy in-laws have a fan heater in their bathroom running off a 3036 5A lighting circuit turned down internally for 1kw instead of 2kw.
Power and lighting has been mixed for many years as far back as the 2A, 5A and 15A round pin socketsTUT TUT , well its not just about BS7671 is it, come on people remember your days at the local tech college, its about adhering to the electrical craft principles we were all taught.
My tutors would be have a fit if they heard some of the comments going on here.
Practically IMO its not good for a circuit to be running over its CCC even if it only for a few seconds with big loads being plugged in untill its goes pop.
Then you could argue that being plunged in total darkness could warrant a C2 for safety reasons in some certain circumstances.
It would be a C3 for me all day long. We dont mix power with lighting circuits.
Maybe that will be in the next amendment that a socket outlet must be fitted next to the last fitting on the circuitMakes it easy to do ELI and RCD testing on a lighting circuit if there’s a handy socket
It would with my old Robin KMP 5404 testerMakes it easy to do ELI and RCD testing on a lighting circuit if there’s a handy socket
My in-laws have a fan heater in their bathroom running off a 3036 5A lighting circuit turned down internally for 1kw instead of 2kw.
I consider these lighting, have wired many these switched at the door entrance for table lamps on lighting circuits or spured down with a FCU.Power and lighting has been mixed for many years as far back as the 2A, 5A and 15A round pin sockets
A lot of the problem as previously mentioned lies with the lighting manufacturers who insist on supplying lighting kits for under cupboard or plinth lighting with 13A plug in adaptors, personally I would rather they supplied their kits with boxed transformers or drivers with a short flylead that could be terminated into a flex outlet plate or FCU but until that happens I feel we are stuck with what we have
I always carry those. Misusing one once got me out of a very difficult situation!I know, you can get adaptors for various light sockets... ES, BC, GU10 etc....
My mother still has one although the heater is duff. My father linked out the general pull switch and you controlled it from the pull cord at the light. Can't remember the pull sequence but maybe one pull heater, two pulls heater and light and three pulls just the light.It's not that many decades back that bathrooms were commonly fitted with combined light/heater contraptions.
We also see cooker hoods with moulded plugs into single sockets fed off the lighting circuitYes we do, we commonly have smoke alarms on lighting circuits.
My mother still has one although the heater is duff. My father linked out the general pull switch and you controlled it from the pull cord at the light. Can't remember the pull sequence but maybe one pull heater, two pulls heater and light and three pulls just the light.
What I want to know is where did you get that picture of my wife.Only a few years ago this was the way we did things.
Surely a properly fused plug and socket isn’t a life-threatening device?!
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Ah, I found one of these in the bathroom of an elderly lady a couple of months back, when T'ing and I'ing for a board change. BC lampholder in the middle, and a circular element around it.My mother still has one although the heater is duff. My father linked out the general pull switch and you controlled it from the pull cord at the light. Can't remember the pull sequence but maybe one pull heater, two pulls heater and light and three pulls just the light.
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