I had already planned out the lighting cable runs for the 4 'chains' of LED downlighters for the reasonably large (7x8m) kitchen / diner / living room.
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There continues to be a bit of uncertainty as to exactly which downlights to have in each cable run - I wont bore you all with the exact details, but on some occasions we think that having a simple 4 quadrant design would be better, and at other times we think it would be better to have 2 main halves and then two areas covering the dinning room table and the kitchen island.
We have to make a decision pretty quick as we are days away from the plasterboard going up and so the 1st fix electrics being in.
Then I had a thought - maybe we dont have to make a choice at all, maybe there can still be flexibility at each light as to which of two circuits the downlight takes its live from.
If 3 core and CPC is looped in and out of each downlight, would I not be able to choose post installation. - I mean I know I would be able to - thats just basic circuit design, the question is if it is allowed? There is space within each downlighter's connection block to do this, (there are 4 terminals, N, E, 1 and 2 - all of which have a loop in and loop out). This suggests to me that I am not the first person to have this thought?
Any thoughts? - I appreciate the downsides of a longer cable run but paradoxically it wont actually be that much longer.
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