BigWallop wrote:

"Mark" wrote in message
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Is it ideal to have the lighting ciruit in a big kitchen around 600watts
in total on a ring circuit like a mains ring or not? and how would you
incorporate a switch into the loop. I have my own thoughts but not
sure if correct.

Thanks

Mark



Do you understand what a ring circuit is? Lighting circuits can have large
supply cables to them, then distributed from that to smaller gauge wiring
for the switches and lamp holders. To run a ring circuit using two supply
cables from the consumer unit (fuse box) shouldn't really be necessary.

Having lighting at 600 Watts in one room is a hell of a lot. What else do
you do in the kitchen that it needs all that lighting? You don't make porn
films in there do you? :-) If the lighting is made up of 6 x 100 Watt spot
lights, then try and drop this down by using low voltage spots on good
transformers. You can distribute the light from these better than huge spot
lights.


My kitchen would definitelty benefit from more than the 9x50W spots amd
3x60w candles it has ....I would say a kilowatt would not be amiss
frankly, but its a big kitchen.

But as others have said, ringing it gains very little apart from extra
complexity in cable laying.

Light circuits by their nature are full of switched spurs and switched
links.

Better to us fatter cable on teh run from MCB to the first switches.

But better still is to have a single 6A MCB, and wire it just like
everyone else does, to avoid confusion when a dumb sparkie eyeballs it
some time in the future.