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What is the best way to wire ceiling lights?

Arran Cameron
The ceiling rose junction box with its loop-in wiring is now really showing its age and is no longer a practical (or even safe) installation for most residents who wish to install fancy light fittings. It is still, however, the most common arrangement for new build houses and rewires, probably as the result of the electrician's training and how they consider it to be the norm or they cannot think of (potentially better) alternatives.


So, what is the best way to wire ceiling lights? Should neutral wires be taken to the switches or not?
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    Arran Cameron:


    How would you wire this up?




     

    Personally I wouldn't. However, it depends entirely on the number of modules how they are fixed and what access is above them - presumably it would be a ELV supply to the LED drivers and a bit of Cat 6 control


    I could think of nothing worse in a domestic setting than having a uniformly lit ceiling  pretending to mimic the broad sunlit uplands


    The skill with lighting is to balance the science with the art - often where we don't put ight is as important if not more so than where we do.


    Regards


    OMS
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    Arran Cameron:


    How would you wire this up?




     

    Personally I wouldn't. However, it depends entirely on the number of modules how they are fixed and what access is above them - presumably it would be a ELV supply to the LED drivers and a bit of Cat 6 control


    I could think of nothing worse in a domestic setting than having a uniformly lit ceiling  pretending to mimic the broad sunlit uplands


    The skill with lighting is to balance the science with the art - often where we don't put ight is as important if not more so than where we do.


    Regards


    OMS
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