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Bathroom heating lights

Arran Cameron

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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    Ah memories - we used to call the thing in my grandparents bathroom  a ‘pig lamp’ though it would have looked just as good over the hot trolley in a restaurant - a glass thing in the lamp holder about the size of a landrover MK1 sealed beam unit. In the winter it got augmented by a portable gas fire  that could be connected by red rubber host to the gas point by the door, a point like that in each room as I recall. From memory I was not allowed to do this, it the fire had to be connected and lit promptly by a grown-up with a wooden spill. The arrival of the North Sea gas retired that one before I was old enough to be allowed.

    It is thinking about this sort of thing that makes me realise how much the world has changed in the last  half  century.

    Mike.

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    Ah memories - we used to call the thing in my grandparents bathroom  a ‘pig lamp’ though it would have looked just as good over the hot trolley in a restaurant - a glass thing in the lamp holder about the size of a landrover MK1 sealed beam unit. In the winter it got augmented by a portable gas fire  that could be connected by red rubber host to the gas point by the door, a point like that in each room as I recall. From memory I was not allowed to do this, it the fire had to be connected and lit promptly by a grown-up with a wooden spill. The arrival of the North Sea gas retired that one before I was old enough to be allowed.

    It is thinking about this sort of thing that makes me realise how much the world has changed in the last  half  century.

    Mike.

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