Outdoor Lighting Query

TheMiddle36 · Apr 28, 2021

G'day.

I've built a pergola in the garden and existing outdoor lights are for the bin.
They are RCD protected mains wired, with a switch in the kitchen, pretty much standard PIR and GU10 type fittings: Looks like this

What I'd like to do is replace this fitting with some 'festoon' lighting similar to this, so I can still switch the lights on and off from the kitchen.
Most of these styles of light however are either solar or mains powered, as in 240v plug.

Can anyone advise me how best to fit something similar to the above to the existing wiring, or what product I should be looking for that can be wired in safely?

Thanks!

Rockingit · Apr 28, 2021

So the existing circuit has an outlet 'somewhere' that's hard wired into the first light? If so.... 16A Ceeform is the simplest option:

Install the wall outlet somewhere tidy instead of the first light and put a trailing socket on the end of the festoon. I've got exactly the same in Somerset running 50m's!

TheMiddle36 · Apr 28, 2021

Rockingit said:
So the existing circuit has an outlet 'somewhere' that's hard wired into the first light? If so.... 16A Ceeform is the simplest option:

View attachment 85196 View attachment 85197 Install the wall outlet somewhere tidy instead of the first light and put a trailing socket on the end of the festoon. I've got exactly the same in Somerset running 50m's!

No, no. There is an existing outdoor light, I'd like to wire in to that