Andrew Gabriel wrote:

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"James Salisbury" writes:

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Yes. Its only using 11 watts so you can have 109 of those bulbs

Not quite so, some have poor power factor and what happens if somone puts
some normall bulbs in?


It is recommended you allow 100W min per lampholder, but you
have to use common sense. Certainly, you can't assume that
all lampholders will always hold only compact fluorescents.



I believe the spirit of the regulation is that at any given time in the
future, there is no combination of light bulbs and or fittings which
could reasonably overload the wiring in the future.

6A is 1500W, or ten 150W bulbs, or 35 odd 40W bulbs. The gibbons who
wired my house reckoned on at best two big rooms per circuit. But I have
standard lamp sockets as well as wall lights and so on, so it was
reasonable.