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?
Unfortunately, one should never underestimate the natural stupidity of a client. If it can be overloaded then it will. Such an example would be the use of BS1363 13A sockets to feed table lamps and standard lamps which are then likely to be used by the clients or cleaners to run their vacuum cleaners.
Even head teachers will declare their observancy when told not to use the 13A socket connected into the lighting circuit for anything else than the table lamp positioned in a small alcove on a stairwell. Then to find when next on site a vacuum cleaner plugged in to the very socket then to be told that "as an electrical novice I see a socket and use it because it fits and is the nerest to the stairs".
Unfortunately, one should never underestimate the natural stupidity of a client. If it can be overloaded then it will. Such an example would be the use of BS1363 13A sockets to feed table lamps and standard lamps which are then likely to be used by the clients or cleaners to run their vacuum cleaners.
Even head teachers will declare their observancy when told not to use the 13A socket connected into the lighting circuit for anything else than the table lamp positioned in a small alcove on a stairwell. Then to find when next on site a vacuum cleaner plugged in to the very socket then to be told that "as an electrical novice I see a socket and use it because it fits and is the nerest to the stairs".
