Adding a Fuse Spur on to a Consumer Unit Circuit

[RDB85]

I’ve had a disagreement with one of the Engineers in work. So we are doing an install. Installing an Intruder Alarm. Rather than go with my suggestion of coming off a Socket and adding in the Fuse Spur as he’s been doing it 15 years it’s now going next to the Consumer Unit. Which at a guess is 20 years old. He said it’s fine to just add in a circuit to an existing circuit.

Myself personally I’m dead against it. He’s not a qualified electrician. Thoughts?

 

[davesparks]

Howcomes?

Because I don't think it is good practice to connect non-lighting loads to lighting circuits unless they specifically need to be on that circuit (Such as a bathroom extract which needs to be switched with the light)
I see no reason why a burglar alarm would need to be fed via a lighting circuit.

What's the difference electrically between adding a single pendant straight from the breaker on a lighting circuit and adding a single pendant to the end of the line?

No difference at all, but my comment wasn't about adding a light to a lighting circuit, it was about using a lighting circuit to feed a non-lighting load.

 

[7029 dave]

^^^ How do you take snippets from a poster like the one above and add comments.

 

[RDB85]

^^^ How do you take snippets from a poster like the one above and add comments.

Select quote and then click reply. It then shows up in the post.

 

[7029 dave]

^^^ How do you take snippets from a poster like the one above and add comments.

Select quote and then click reply. It then shows up in the post.

Cheers I done it, learning all the time