downlights

[tipex]

hi al, im no electrician but i changed the previous downlights today. Previously they had a transformer and now straight 240v.
Anyway all i did was just remove the transformers and put all the wires in the new lights. hope your still with me.:snore:
My question is' all the wires you see in the pictures are they legal for a 5 year cert cause im rentin the house out or do the need to be put in a like juction box. many thanks. (need any help with your floors give me a shout)

 

[telectrix]

IP 44 for zone 2. no IP rating needed if outside zones.

 

[Guitarist]

If the light is more than 2.25 m above the bath or shower (from floor level) then it needs no IP rating (though it should be recessed into the ceiling if above a shower). Within zones 1 and 2 it should be IPX4 rated (Regulation 701.55 (xi)), but outside zones, as telectrix said, it doesn't actually need a rating.

 

[telectrix]

but there's no harm in fitting IP65. also, if i fit IP rated downlights within zones 1 or 2, i use the same ones outside the zones, just so they are all the same.

 

[ruston]

And nearly all the "tin can" type are IP 65 rated anyway .

 

[telectrix]

the ones i detest are those where you are supposed to be able to twist a GU10 lamp in by supergueing your fingers to the front of the lamp. as that's the only accessible part without removing the fitting from the ceiling and bringing down paint and plaster with it.

 

[ruston]

I just dread them all from start to finish. Especially the ones you describe and the ones with the chrome screw ring; there is always one.

 

[Guitarist]

3 micro-suction cups on a triangular frame...works every time. Mission impossible.
Always avoid fitting lights directly over a bath or shower....most people can't handle that level of detail.

 

[isitintheregs]

the ones i detest are those where you are supposed to be able to twist a GU10 lamp in by supergueing your fingers to the front of the lamp. as that's the only accessible part without removing the fitting from the ceiling and bringing down paint and plaster with it.

How about IP rated LED fittings? Fit and forget!

 

[Farmelectrics]

put cables into lighting jbs change lamps to 4w leds just done it in my whole house cost a few bob quality of light is brillliant and i no im saving money lots of it gone from 300w in rooms down to 24w oh and youve took away the heat source from ceiling space fitted hundreads of the 50w gu10 over the years we watched a safety vid at work frigtned the life out of me with the fires theve caused would never fit them again personally