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Nottsneil84
A friend want's a luminaire installing above his bath/shower as he obviously needs more light. I've not actually gone to look at the job as he lives in Leeds but I'm due to do the job this weekend and taking a look then.
Although the light will be outside the Zones likely (2.25m off FFL) I'm still wanting to consider it Zone 1 and use a 25v/12v downlighter and preferably IPX5 (withstand water jets). Is that overkill or just good practice?
But my main question is I'm guessing the lighting will be the loop-in-loop out method, can I just loop off the nearest light fitting with a 25v luminaire with its own transformer.
Any answers, advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Although the light will be outside the Zones likely (2.25m off FFL) I'm still wanting to consider it Zone 1 and use a 25v/12v downlighter and preferably IPX5 (withstand water jets). Is that overkill or just good practice?
But my main question is I'm guessing the lighting will be the loop-in-loop out method, can I just loop off the nearest light fitting with a 25v luminaire with its own transformer.
- Would I have any problems if the current down lighters in the bathroom are already on a shared transformer, in which case would I just need to find a down lighter with matching voltage (likely a 25/12v ac - 30/60 dc).
- Would I have issues connecting a lower voltage down lighter, say a 12v connected to a lighting circuit sharing a 25v transformer (or would it work fine as long as the supplying voltage is above the new light and the 12v transformer will just step it down again).
- If the circuit is not protected by a 30 mA RCD should I even bother touching it/safely isolate and move the circuit to the RCD protected side if possible as the Regs state it should be (guessing it will be protected as the building is a fairly new build but you never know).
Any answers, advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.