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    Is this ceiling light compliant?

    And wrong. And if you do that the DIYer will never learn from his/her mistakes.
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    Is this ceiling light compliant?

    Nothing simple about using the wrong terms which could cause confusion and danger.
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    Is this ceiling light compliant?

    But if you do that the layman will never learn from his/her mistakes.
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    Is this ceiling light compliant?

    OK. Thanks, I was mistaken.
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    Is this ceiling light compliant?

    ?
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    Is this ceiling light compliant?

    Wagos can't be used with stranded cables.
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    Is this ceiling light compliant?

    Mains is low voltage.
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    2 bulbs light speratley

    They won't be wired in series as they would be very dim if they were.
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    Dimmer switch confusion

    Wires don't know what colour they are. The other single brown wire is not live. It is a switched wire.
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    Do portable hand held MR-16 lamps exist?

    MR16 lamps, i.e. multifaceted reflector 16 eights of an inch in diameter. So much variety of bases and voltages, i.e. GU5.3, GU10, ses and 12v, 24v, 120v, 240v. How can a portable lamp cater for all these permutations?
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    Use for 1.5mm shaver wire

    Depending on where the idiot was when plunged into darkness. I've already mention a foot through the loft floor for instance.
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    Use for 1.5mm shaver wire

    Why does that mean there is a "need" for a socket from the lighting circuit? It needs a socket from the ring or 16a radial. There is no reason why aerial installers cannot choose boosters with power supplies that are not wall worts and changing the plug.
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    Use for 1.5mm shaver wire

    So the IET caved in to warehouse installers who wanted to operate a dangerous practice instead of using the correct plug and socket such as a BS546 5amp one. My faith in the IET has just gone down several notches.
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    Use for 1.5mm shaver wire

    But it is supplying a 13a socket. So the obvious assumption is that it is mislabelled.
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    Use for 1.5mm shaver wire

    Don't know who Winston and banalsheds are but I have already explained that I know it is allowed and that it is a reg that is so wrong and why. To quote a term “engineering judgement”, use it and you will understand why it is so wrong. @westword10. One amendment of the 16th Ed removed BS1363...
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    Use for 1.5mm shaver wire

    The worst that can happen is the someone thinks what idiot put a 3a fuse in a FCU feeding a 13a socket and replaces it with a 13a one and then plugs in his equipment causing a blackout/
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    Use for 1.5mm shaver wire

    Putting a 13A socket on a lighting circuit is one of the regs that is so wrong. Particularly in a loft where plugging in a large load such as a cleaner will trip the lighting circuit plunging your loft into darkness. If it is not boarded the next problem is your foot through the ceiling. Labels...
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    How can I safely use a German coffee machine in the UK?

    What you are saying applies when you have a 13 amp plug that you want to adapt to a European socket, the other way round to what we have here.
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    How can I safely use a German coffee machine in the UK?

    The USA uses earthed sockets, though they will accept 2 pin plugs. http://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/NorthAm1.html
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    60s lamp overheating

    I guess you are right. I would still use the old plug anyway for something of my own. No one would ever know.

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