Socket outlets on lighting circuit

[Andy78]

This sounds ridiculous.
Is the client wanting to switch the supply to the socket so this wall light works from a wall switch ? If so, she has bought the wrong type of light. Tell her to buy a normal one.

Has this wall mounted light got a switch on the fitting or down the flex somewhere ? if so then use that as switching and supply a low level socket from the nearest socket circuit.

any ELV lights that I have ever fitted have had the transformer built into the fitting base so you can fit them normally. Does Ikea think a flex trailing over the wall is a "feature" ?

 

[South Spark]

This is the beauty in question.

IKEA PS 2012 LED wall lamp - white - IKEA

 

[telectrix]

hideous. has this woman got no taste?

 

[South Spark]

Steady on .. it's the mother in law.

 

[Marvo]

I'd class that light as a portable appliance, it isn't permanently fixed, it just sits on a slide bracket. I'd say it would be plugged into a socket off a socket circuit rather than a socket on the lighting circuit. Putting it on the lighting circuit is likely to cause problems if they install dimmers for example. Just for interest I see it's disposable, according to the pdf the LED's in it aren't replacable......so much for environmentally friendly.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Super glue the transformed plug onto a trailing socket and then run the cable into a flex outlet.

 

[Guitarist]

As already mentioned, label the socket as "Lighting only" and get on with it. Nothing against the regs, and sometimes the only solution.

 

[44ALLAN]

hideous. has this woman got no taste?

Steady on .. it's the mother in law.

Was that her walking with the sheriff ?...........I agree........hideous.
Not long before the daughter looks like that too ..god forbid.............gud luck mate

 

[plugsandsparks]

Came across something similar just the other day on a new kitchen. Display lights powered from combined tx/plug. When i said to the fitter i'll just put a JB on top of the wall unit, he then showed me the tx. I rolled my eyes and a socket went on above the wall unit. What a crap solution all round. Worst case someone climbs up on top of the wall unit and plugs the kettle in which trips the breaker.

 

[Adam W]

It looks like it's a semi-permanent fitting - you fix it to the wall, plug it into a 'normal' socket and run the cable in that mini-trunking they recommend, then when the light breaks or fashion changes you simply rip it off the wall and throw it in the bin without all the lights tripping out when the vacuum cleaner gets used. That seems to be what the manufacturer recommends and therefore is in accordance with the regs, so doing something other than that, ie putting a socket on the lighting circuit, would be against the regs.
Is that the answer you were after?
Alternatively you could just do what you like to make life easier.

 

[Outspoken]

All Joking aside the safest way to achieve the aim would be to install a switched fused spur on the nearest ring and the output from this used to supply a high level unswitched single socket at the correct location for this wall wart. Fuse the spur down to 3A, label accordingly and have the socket engraved with "To be used for Lighting only"

The above would ensure full Regs compliance and mean you had taken all reasonable steps for safety and design consideration, what some numpty does at a later stage if they ignore the warning is not your concern.

 

[telectrix]

All Joking aside the safest way to achieve the aim would be to install a switched fused spur on the nearest ring and the output from this used to supply a high level unswitched single socket at the correct location for this wall wart. Fuse the spur down to 3A, label accordingly and have the socket engraved with "To be used for Lighting only"

The above would ensure full Regs compliance and mean you had taken all reasonable steps for safety and design consideration, what some numpty does at a later stage if they ignore the warning is not your concern.[/QUOTE


FAR,FAR, too sensible for this forum. go and stand in the corner of the classroom until playtime.

 

[Outspoken]

All Joking aside the safest way to achieve the aim would be to install a switched fused spur on the nearest ring and the output from this used to supply a high level unswitched single socket at the correct location for this wall wart. Fuse the spur down to 3A, label accordingly and have the socket engraved with "To be used for Lighting only"

The above would ensure full Regs compliance and mean you had taken all reasonable steps for safety and design consideration, what some numpty does at a later stage if they ignore the warning is not your concern.

FAR,FAR, too sensible for this forum. go and stand in the corner of the classroom until playtime.

Here you go then..



But for enjoyment factor and staying on topic!!

 

[telectrix]

are those the new paris fashion burkas?

 

[varilite]

Get a 13A to 5A adaptor and use 5A socket