lighting

  1. olisones

    LED COB strip not lighting despite power

    Hi all. First post and wondering if someone can help. I have a single colour LED COB that I’m having issues with. The strip is to be controlled by a small Wi-Fi controller unit. Due to the positioning, I removed the connector and now have a positive and negotiable wire. These both show current...
  2. H

    LIGHTING TOWERS EARTH STAKES

    Is earthing stakes mandatory here in Australia, for mobile lighting towers in mining?
  3. RicoRepairs

    Ground floor lighting trips circuit breaker.

    Hi all, so just moved into a new property, the light fitting/rose was removed from the living room, nothing looks to be shorting (But there is a single neutral with no connector block?) but the breaker trips straight away. There are 4 fittings on this floor, none with bulbs in, none with any...
  4. O

    What's common practice with IR tests on lighting circuits?

    I had just installed a heat alarm on the downstairs lighting circuit during a kitchen rewire. The new kitchen ring / cooker circuit I tested IR for L-N and N-E at 500v, fine, but the DS lighting circuit consisted solely of 21 LED downlights, in various rooms and the alarm. All of which say do...
  5. O

    Led strip lighting issues

    Hi all. I just wanted to see if anyone has had issues with Fans on the same lighting Cct as LED strip lights. I have a job where the fan mech on the the next switch down on the same light Cct turns a LED strip on and off when running through the Fan speeds. Its not a switched active and the...
  6. H

    Under cabinet led strip lighting connected to light switch

    Hi, I have replaced some under cabinet kitchen tube lamps with LED ones. I followed the same layout and just replaced the lights. Each light (4 in total) is wired to its own fuse box and operated by the kitchen light switch on the wall. As well as each light being connected to a fuse box...
  7. timhoward

    Todays lighting puzzle

    Before I take it apart…. Anyone like to take any guesses? Fitting a new (customer supplied) light fitting. Fitted, Came to a Zs test and oddness prevailed to the degree I wasn’t ready to leave it connected. In the end I bought it home for more testing. Bulb holders 1 and 2 Bulb holder 3...
  8. Dartlec

    Sockets on a lighting circuit - C3 or C2?

    Fun EICR at an HMO today, which was installed new 5 years ago (not particularly well!) Lots of niggly things that I'll sort, but in the kitchen cupboards were two unswitched sockets which confused me for a while. Turns out they are connected to the lighting circuit, switched by their own...
  9. J

    How add lighting spur? Nuteral is loop at the fitting and live is looped at the switch.

    How is addtionl light spur added spur in the following situation? Nuteral is looped at the fitting and live is looped at the switch. Theres two netural and one switched live at the light fitting, with all live and switched live at the switch.
  10. T

    SwitchDim lighting PIR

    Does any one know if a basic switchdim or touch dim ballast can be used with a Pir that's will dim the lights up and down in accordance with the level of light available? Or is it just dimming on a retractable switch
  11. Bowmeat

    Workshop led lighting help

    Hi all , hopefully somebody on here can help me out, I recently went to change a led unit in a workshop , cut power ,changed led unit , then when I switch power back on it didn't work and also took the bank of 5 lights down with it , disconnected it and the bank still doesn't work, checked...
  12. M

    Maximum cable length lighting circuit

    Been out the domestic game for a long time, but now having to rewire my own house. Was wondering what the maximum cable length would be for a 1.0mm lighting circuit with 100w of leds? Is the max cable length the ‘maximum’ length of r1+r2 from conumser unit - up and down switch drops - to the...
  13. A

    En suite lighting not going on .

    Guys looking for a bit of advice. Our Mcb on the consumer unit was tripping constant even though nothing was plugged in. Both bedroom lighting and en suite lighting come under this MCB. However until recent both bedroom lighting remain on and the mcb doesn’t trip but the en suite lighting won’t...
  14. Bob Geldoff1234

    Boiler off lighting circuit?

    What is everyone's opinion on taking a combi boiler supply off the lighting circuit? I doubt the boiler would pull more than 300 watts and with all the led lamps being used on the lighting circuit,I doubt it would come to more than a couple of hundred watts.A 3 amp fuse in the boiler spur would...
  15. M

    Earth to Neutral 2 ohm with Multimeter cable disconnected from switch board.

    Earth to Neutral 2 ohm with Multimeter on alighting cct. The cable disconnected from the switchboard. I am new here and appreciate everyone looking at this post. I come from an Industrial Electrical background and would like advice on fault finding. My house has 1 lighting RCD. There seems to be...
  16. Michaelwgroves

    Lighting accessory borrowed CPC code.

    I have a light switch where the CPC has been used for a lighting circuit and sleeved. Previously I would give this a C3 (411.3.1.1) and leave a sticker on the Consumer Unit to advise no CPC at accessory, only use class II accessories. However, the CPC from another switch the other side of the...
  17. Vortigern

    For sale some lighting bits and bobs

    I have an amsell 600 x 600 LED panel and two emergency lighting pod fittings for amsell panels. I also want to sell 18 x 12w KLEDSTD plus two of the 9w small 2d. Also JCC downlight x 4 any interest? The Kosnic LED retrofit are removed from already converted 2D lamps and the client wanted the...
  18. S

    Messy choc block for lighting circuit

    I have just been in the process of changing some old 12v halogen downlights in the bathroom for bathroom for mains volt leds. My late father was a retired spark so know a little of doing some basic things. The previous downlight transformers had been wired into a choc block which was just...
  19. W

    Borrowing cpc from local socket for lighting joint box

    Wonder what’s peoples thoughts on this, upstairs lighting has no cpc throughout, 2 bedrooms on ground floor on same circuit have cpcs. Cables are wired using joint box method, Found joint box for upstairs lights with cpcs cut away, reterminated this joint box but still not getting a cpc on the...
  20. brokentechie

    Running ring main wiring and lighting circuit wiring together/in close proximity.

    I'm building a "media wall" type structure, to house TV, av equipment etc, with alcoves each side lit by Led downlights and I'll be extending my ring main also as part of the build. My question relates to clipping cables to the ceiling plate (2x3 timber) - is it acceptable to run 1mm T&E...

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