Socket in loft off lighting circuit

[golfpaul]

Aerial booster in loft, can i take a socket off the lighting cct, or perhaps a fcu?

Cheers.

 

[uksparks]

At the end of the day, so long as the OCPD is correct for the cable... Ok it's not good practice I guess but is it wrong? Probably not. Just make sure it's labelled. I may be wrong but I can't see the issue.

 

[7029 dave]

TBH, I would go with the 5amp socket arrangement. If nothing more heaver to pick up from.

 

[Darkwood]

TBH, I would go with the 5amp socket arrangement. If nothing more heaver to pick up from.

5amp sockets are fine but unfused normally what if the Aerial Booster specifies a 3amp fuse as a lot do?

 

[Engineer54]

5amp sockets are fine but unfused normally what if the Aerial Booster specifies a 3amp fuse as a lot do?

Treat like any fan manufacture that insists their fan needs protecting with a 3A fuse!! If the unit needs protecting with a 3A fuse, then it should be factory fitted, not be relied on to be provided by an installation electrician or end user....


It's about time these manufactures that come out with all this crap, realise that plugtop and FCU fuses are there to protect the cord/flex or the FCU secondary cables, ....NOT their damned appliances and bits of equipment!!

 

[Darkwood]

Treat like any fan manufacture that insists their fan needs protecting with a 3A fuse!! If the unit needs protecting with a 3A fuse, then it should be factory fitted, not be relied on to be provided by an installation electrician or end user....


It's about time these manufactures that come out with all this crap, realise that plugtop and FCU fuses are there to protect the cord/flex or the FCU secondary cables, ....NOT their damned appliances and bits of equipment!!

You bring up a good point but as it stands this as you know is not the case so we will keep on having to finish off the manufacturers work.

 

[Octopus]

Aerial booster in loft, can i take a socket off the lighting cct, or perhaps a fcu?

Cheers.

To answer your question directly, stick in a FCU with a 3A fuse and locate the aerial amp by the FCU. Job done.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Ok it's not good practice I guess but is it wrong?

Scenario - trade comes in to do some work, plugs in power tool, trips MCB taking out loft light, then can't see to get out safely. Defo fcu job or non-std outlet if fuse not req'd.

 

[Adam W]

It says in the regs it's OK to take lazy shortcuts if you've got kids to feed.
Is that what you wanted to hear?

 

[Guest77]

already 23 previous replies about a supply to an amp, amazing.

 

[golfpaul]

It says in the regs it's OK to take lazy shortcuts if you've got kids to feed.
Is that what you wanted to hear?

Yes, thankyou for clearing that up for me..

:smug:

 

[SparkyJoe]

problem with 5a sockets, Is that you have to cut the plug off the aerial booster, and immediately invalidate warranty.

 

[davesparks]

Utter nonsense, changing a plug does not invalidate the warranty!

 

[Darkwood]

problem with 5a sockets, Is that you have to cut the plug off the aerial booster, and immediately invalidate warranty.

Sack your legal adviser ... its this kind of scaremongering that is the scurge of our profession, please provide any legitimate evidence to back-up your claim :6:

 

[Guest77]

Sack your legal adviser ... its this kind of scaremongering that is the scurge of our profession, please provide any legitimate evidence to back-up your claim :6:

You will be waiting a loooooooooooooooooooooong time for that.

 

[happysteve]

First thing the guy installing our washing machine did was chop the moulded plug off (muttering "utter cr@p" as he did so), and re-used the (rewirable) plug off our old machine.