My question is if you’ve got a lighting circuit and you ad addition loads to the circuit will this always trip the breaker if you add too much load on a circuit?
Yes you can have a 13A socket on your lighting circuit, but if you are daft enough to plug in a kettle instead of a small load, you can expect to be plunged into darkness, but not for the wiring to be damaged.
Well one could install a 13 A socket on a lighting circuit, but personally I would be loath to do so. A 13 A socket is expected to be able to deliver 13 A. You can't accuse a user of being "daft" if it is just the case that they do not have knowledge about how an installation is wired.
I once discussed with my electrician team the possibility of replacing 15 A sockets in offices with twin 13 A sockets. I had seen this done elsewhere in my organisation. The electricians, quoting Regulations, objected on the grounds that a twin 13 A socket should be able to deliver 20 A but the wired fusing on these circuits was only 15 A.
Yes you can have a 13A socket on your lighting circuit, but if you are daft enough to plug in a kettle instead of a small load, you can expect to be plunged into darkness, but not for the wiring to be damaged.
Well one could install a 13 A socket on a lighting circuit, but personally I would be loath to do so. A 13 A socket is expected to be able to deliver 13 A. You can't accuse a user of being "daft" if it is just the case that they do not have knowledge about how an installation is wired.
I once discussed with my electrician team the possibility of replacing 15 A sockets in offices with twin 13 A sockets. I had seen this done elsewhere in my organisation. The electricians, quoting Regulations, objected on the grounds that a twin 13 A socket should be able to deliver 20 A but the wired fusing on these circuits was only 15 A.
