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?
I always say putting a 13a socket on a lighting circuit is bad practice. I can't really understand why it is permitted.
Outside of domestics it's quite common to have lights on some kind of plug & socket arrangement (often blue 16A ones) - I'm thinking of the likes of major railway stations with the light fittings way up high above the platforms. Much easier and safer to be able unplug & unhook the entire fitting and bring it down to ground level to work on.
- Andy.
This is a good idea, also widely used in commercial offices with suspended ceiling lighting. Perhaps this idea could be extended to "dedicated" lighting circuits, rather than the obsolescent BS546 5 A sockets.
I always say putting a 13a socket on a lighting circuit is bad practice. I can't really understand why it is permitted.
Outside of domestics it's quite common to have lights on some kind of plug & socket arrangement (often blue 16A ones) - I'm thinking of the likes of major railway stations with the light fittings way up high above the platforms. Much easier and safer to be able unplug & unhook the entire fitting and bring it down to ground level to work on.
- Andy.
This is a good idea, also widely used in commercial offices with suspended ceiling lighting. Perhaps this idea could be extended to "dedicated" lighting circuits, rather than the obsolescent BS546 5 A sockets.
