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Bathroom heating lights

What do electricians think of bathroom heating lights?

They are the highest power devices normally connected to a lighting circuit. Many years ago I had one with a 750W heating element. Combine this with a 100W incandescent bulb and you have a device which consumes 3.7A. Two of these devices will overload a 6A lighting circuit.

Should heating lights be designed in a way to easily connect the heating element to a different circuit than that used for the light? Alternatively, should they be powered from a ring main rather than a lighting circuit?

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0 ebee over 3 years ago

I`ve never liked them. They were quite popular back in the day. Lighting circuit with 60W lamps, fairly rare IMHE . 100 watts for bedrooms and small rooms , more for main rooms, even 5 x chandler 60w which were duller than a good old 200W, 200W not that usual though 150w often.
Having said all that the one such heater on a cct was often not on for hours on end so usually OK I reckon.
There are still a lot of houses non LEDs
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0 ebee over 3 years ago

I`ve never liked them. They were quite popular back in the day. Lighting circuit with 60W lamps, fairly rare IMHE . 100 watts for bedrooms and small rooms , more for main rooms, even 5 x chandler 60w which were duller than a good old 200W, 200W not that usual though 150w often.
Having said all that the one such heater on a cct was often not on for hours on end so usually OK I reckon.
There are still a lot of houses non LEDs
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