I know, you can get adaptors for various light sockets... ES, BC, GU10 etc.... but my old Ethos test kit came with either a 13A lead, or 3 separate prongs (although got an official 16A lead when i was on the caravan park for testing the hook ups..)
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My in-laws have a fan heater in their bathroom running off a 3036 5A lighting circuit turned down internally for 1kw instead of 2kw.
I consider these lighting, have wired many these switched at the door entrance for table lamps on lighting circuits or spured down with a FCU.Power and lighting has been mixed for many years as far back as the 2A, 5A and 15A round pin sockets
A lot of the problem as previously mentioned lies with the lighting manufacturers who insist on supplying lighting kits for under cupboard or plinth lighting with 13A plug in adaptors, personally I would rather they supplied their kits with boxed transformers or drivers with a short flylead that could be terminated into a flex outlet plate or FCU but until that happens I feel we are stuck with what we have
I always carry those. Misusing one once got me out of a very difficult situation!I know, you can get adaptors for various light sockets... ES, BC, GU10 etc....
My mother still has one although the heater is duff. My father linked out the general pull switch and you controlled it from the pull cord at the light. Can't remember the pull sequence but maybe one pull heater, two pulls heater and light and three pulls just the light.It's not that many decades back that bathrooms were commonly fitted with combined light/heater contraptions.
We also see cooker hoods with moulded plugs into single sockets fed off the lighting circuitYes we do, we commonly have smoke alarms on lighting circuits.
My mother still has one although the heater is duff. My father linked out the general pull switch and you controlled it from the pull cord at the light. Can't remember the pull sequence but maybe one pull heater, two pulls heater and light and three pulls just the light.
What I want to know is where did you get that picture of my wife.Only a few years ago this was the way we did things.
Surely a properly fused plug and socket isn’t a life-threatening device?!
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Ah, I found one of these in the bathroom of an elderly lady a couple of months back, when T'ing and I'ing for a board change. BC lampholder in the middle, and a circular element around it.My mother still has one although the heater is duff. My father linked out the general pull switch and you controlled it from the pull cord at the light. Can't remember the pull sequence but maybe one pull heater, two pulls heater and light and three pulls just the light.
I've wired them in some places and taken them out in others the 2A was mainly lighting the 5A and 15A I have seen on power and lighting circuits so I don't believe there has ever been a hard line between using sockets on lighting and power circuitsI consider these lighting, have wired many these switched at the door entrance for table lamps on lighting circuits or spured down with a FCU.
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