Patio wall brick lights

sidekick · May 5, 2013

Does anyone know the best way to fit and connect x 10 LED brick lights in patio dwarf wall where both sides are visible and to be rendered.
Have t/e inside ready to feed through wall to outside but without actually having the brick lights yet not sure how it will or should work.
Assume conduit through cavity of wall which although is only 10mm at moment i can get to it as no copings fitted yet.
Problem is not sure how to connect and loop from one light to next.

Marvo · May 19, 2013

You're going to have to run a single circuit from the house and install a suitable enclosure and make a maintenance free joint at each fitting or maybe use a resin/gel joint at each fitting instead.

sidekick · May 19, 2013

Marvo said:
You're going to have to run a single circuit from the house and install a suitable enclosure and make a maintenance free joint at each fitting or maybe use a resin/gel joint at each fitting instead.

Thanks for that Marvo. That is the way I am looking at. However, my dilemma is finding a suitable enclosure. The wall is double skinned but will be rendered on both sides. The cavity will just about take 20mm conduit to run the cable to and from each light point but at each fitting I will only have access through the 71mm x71mm recess to get in any enclosure to connect the loop in and out cable and the fitting flex. Any ideas what I could use which would do the job correctly as in maintenance free with no future access needed or not maintenance free but easy to access.

Richard Burns · May 20, 2013

Unfortunately the light design and space available does not make this easy, but if you have a 71x71 recess that you can use you could get a 60mm IP44 JB in that space as so long as the wall does not fill with water you should be OK with IP44. However it would not be maintenance free so would have to be accessible in some way.
Failing that in the space you have you are limited as an off the wall idea you might be able to use scotchloks for the connection and seal with SA tape, you can get 600V 10A scotchloks but this would not be an ideal solution. Again not maintenance free.
I have seen T splice crimps somewhere but not sure where.

Marvo · May 20, 2013

Bottom line is you'd have a much easier life if more appropriate fittings were being used with an internal connection facility. If they were specified by the customer I'd have told them to exchange them for something else. As things are you'll just have to hunt around for the smallest connection box you can find and fill it with waterproofing gel or similar. I'm not sure about the scotchlok and self amalgamating tape idea, that really would be a last resort for me.