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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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  • Jaymack: 
     

    Arran Cameron: 
     

    What do electricians think of bathroom heating lights?

    The principle is wrong, relying on such inefficient, radiant heat; rather think of fan heating in the space behind an enclosed panel below a bath say or floor heating.

    Jaymack  

    Noisy fan heaters that blow dust and dead skin flakes about, and that get clogged up with loose hair and need regular maintenance and cleaning.

     

    Z.

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  • Jaymack: 
     

    Arran Cameron: 
     

    What do electricians think of bathroom heating lights?

    The principle is wrong, relying on such inefficient, radiant heat; rather think of fan heating in the space behind an enclosed panel below a bath say or floor heating.

    Jaymack  

    Noisy fan heaters that blow dust and dead skin flakes about, and that get clogged up with loose hair and need regular maintenance and cleaning.

     

    Z.

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