Stefek Zaba wrote:
choco wrote:


Its against regs to fit 13A sockets to lighting rings.


Any idea why? Is there another kind of 3 pin socket I could use? There
are 4
roses on the circuit including this one.

To stop any mumpty plugging heavy loads into the lighting circuit.

For your needs, if the 13A sockets are out of reach (you mentioned on
the ceiling with thin canvas below, right?) the practical chance of
anyone plugging the vac into them is tiny, and a 4-way strip with a
suitable warning label ("EXISTING LIGHTS ONLY!!") would be sensible
enough. If the sockets are just holding plugs, and you clip the cable to
the ceiling so there's no serious weight pulling them out, mounting the
block on the ceiling would be OK. If you have wall-warts or similar, you
should mount the 13A block on some sort of 90-degree bracket
arrangement, suspended shelf, or adjacent wall if still covered by your
bit o'canvas, so that the weight won't gradually pull the wallwarts out
over months.

Put a 3A fuse in the 4-way block, as further protection against some
fool (you when half-asleep, say!) plugging any heavier load in. And when
you come to sell, take away the 13A blocks...

HTH - Stefek

Ikea's latest plug in 20va 12v lighting transformers are now switched
mode psu and are very small and light, probably weighing as much as a
normal plug.

However I guess you should really put them to one side and use a couple
of propper wire in - wire out low voltage lighting transformers (e.g. a
50 VA one could cope with two Ikea 20w lamps). These can then be wired
to the flex from the old celing roses.

As far as practable keep the low voltage cable length as equal as
possible if supplied more than one lamp from a transformer.



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