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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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  • Chris Pearson: 
     

    Jaymack: 
    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.

    IMHO, they are ugly, 

    Ugly? Perhaps you would prefer this neat attractive American unit? So pretty.

     

     

    Z.

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  • Chris Pearson: 
     

    Jaymack: 
    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.

    IMHO, they are ugly, 

    Ugly? Perhaps you would prefer this neat attractive American unit? So pretty.

     

     

    Z.

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