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 went to have a look at an issue for a kitchen company.
The fitters had added some lighting which was being blamed for tripping the MCB. I looked in the dining room and there was a chandelier with five 100 watt lamps in it as well as four walls lights with another two 100 watt lamps in them, then I looked in the lounge and there was the same again, so it was more than 10 amps in those two rooms on the 6 amp MCB then there were more around the house, I said it was already overloaded and actually the fitters has reduced the load in the kitchen by installing LED lighting.
The lady customer said “I like it bright” and of course “it’s never been a issue in the past”!
I separated the kitchen lights and connected them as a new circuit and swerved the issue with the rest of the house.
I went to have a look at an issue for a kitchen company.
The fitters had added some lighting which was being blamed for tripping the MCB. I looked in the dining room and there was a chandelier with five 100 watt lamps in it as well as four walls lights with another two 100 watt lamps in them, then I looked in the lounge and there was the same again, so it was more than 10 amps in those two rooms on the 6 amp MCB then there were more around the house, I said it was already overloaded and actually the fitters has reduced the load in the kitchen by installing LED lighting.
The lady customer said “I like it bright” and of course “it’s never been a issue in the past”!
I separated the kitchen lights and connected them as a new circuit and swerved the issue with the rest of the house.
