Need to extend power & lighting to a conservatory from a kitchen.
Extending the power is simple since spurs from local sockets are easily
available. The question is, is it acceptable to use this same feed to
also provide lighting? The correct procedure I know, would be to tap
the lighting off the lighting ring, but access to this wopuld involve
ripping up of floorboards & generally creating a mess.
So, would my shortcut be legal but frowned upon, or an IEE violation?
Thanks,
Chris.

cj squirms wrote:

> Need to extend power & lighting to a conservatory from a kitchen.


Put the lighting feed through a 5A FCU

NT

cj squirms wrote:

> Need to extend power & lighting to a conservatory from a kitchen.
> Extending the power is simple since spurs from local sockets are easily
> available. The question is, is it acceptable to use this same feed to
> also provide lighting? The correct procedure I know, would be to tap
> the lighting off the lighting ring, but access to this wopuld involve
> ripping up of floorboards & generally creating a mess.
> So, would my shortcut be legal but frowned upon, or an IEE violation?


You can use a spur to supply lighting but you will need to use a fused 
connection unit at 3A.

Remember that each spur must only supply one point (single socket, 
double socket, or FCU).

Owain

> Remember that each spur must only supply one point (single socket,
> double socket, or FCU).


Unless it is a fused spur, after which you may supply multiple sockets.

My only concern in a kitchen is that these rings are often highly loaded
already and might not be a good candidate for expansion.

Christian.

Christian McArdle wrote:

> > Remember that each spur must only supply one point (single socket,
> > double socket, or FCU).
>
> Unless it is a fused spur, after which you may supply multiple sockets.
>
> My only concern in a kitchen is that these rings are often highly loaded
> already and might not be a good candidate for expansion.
>
> Christian.


True if you run a big ac in the conservatory off it. But most
conservatories are very lightly loaded.

NT

> True if you run a big ac in the conservatory off it. But most
> conservatories are very lightly loaded.


I bet it is pretty common to run a 3kW fan heater in there. I know I do in
winter (just for 15 minutes before sitting down to eat), as I haven't got
round to installing the fan convector.

Christian.

>> Need to extend power & lighting to a conservatory from a kitchen.
>
> Put the lighting feed through a 5A FCU
>

Don't forget to lable up the fuseboard, if you have a fuse/mcb saying 
'downstairs lights' or 'lights' it should have something like 'exept 
conservatory'.  The spur unit should be labled up too.  Though it is quite 
common in houses to have the landing light wired from the downstairs lights, 
without it labled up.

Regards, Blew


> NT
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