Regs or Guidance for Festival Lighting

Piratepete · Jun 20, 2017

My village has a small 2 day music festival and wants temporary lighting in the beer and catering tents. It'll be supplied by a generator.
I couldn't see a section in the regs particularly relating to this???

Is there some useful guidance anywhere?
Eg Is it ok to use standard 3core flex to fluorescent fittings if it's not at ground level? Do the fittings have to be fully enclosed if they can be reached?
Cheers!
Pete

Strima · Jun 20, 2017

BS7909.

Piratepete · Jun 20, 2017

Brill. Is there a free downloadable anywhere?

Strima · Jun 20, 2017

PM me your email address and I'll send you a copy, no point buying a copy as most of it says refer to BS7671.

davesparks · Jun 21, 2017

As mentioned BS 7909 is what you need, this will most likely be specified in your temporary event licence and these days is often checked by the local authority.

Standard flex is not normally acceptable, it should be H07 RNF or equivalent.

How many generators, what size and how will they be working together? If it's only one generator then what provision have you made for providing light of the generator fails?

Under 6kVA you will fall in to the simple installations categorically and could use a floating earth if you think it is appropriate.

We normally use festoon lighting in these kind of tents/marquees (and for most of the outdoor public areas) and whenever possible run multiple generators in parallel to provide a live backup should one fail.

telectrix · Jun 21, 2017

just make sure they have beer on hand pull in case the generator fails.

Piratepete · Jun 21, 2017

Thanks folks!
Pete

Strima · Jun 21, 2017

If its only basic lighting your looking at I would say 110 volt would be the easiest and quickest option to set up. You could also look at emergency units in case of mains fail etc.

dmxtothemax · Jun 21, 2017

do you have 110v power systems in the UK ?
I thought it was 230v ?

telectrix · Jun 21, 2017

dmxtothemax said:
do you have 110v power systems in the UK ?
I thought it was 230v ?

we don't have 110V as supplied, but for site work, tools are restricted to being fed from a 240/110V transformer, secondary is centre tapped,with the centre tap being connected to Earth. so only 55V each leg to E.