Having looked around at what's available,
I settled on some garden lighting kits that
were to my taste and today bought them from
B&Q. I have just had a large deck built in
the garden and they will be installed in a
number of locations in and around the decking.

The kits are as follows...

3 x 50mm Round LED Kits
(Each of these contains 2 fittings and 1
Transformer. A 4-way adaptor allows 2 extra
fittings to be connected to 1 Transformer,
making 4. I need 6 fittings, so will use a
4-gang and 2-gang combination, leaving the
3rd transformer redundant (or, as I told the
missus... 'a spare, just in case!'. These will
be flush fitted, into the decking, as a straight
line along the left edge of the deck).

1 x 10mm Round Step Warning Kit
(Contains 10 x mini-LED fittings and 1 transformer.
I will install these at the step onto the deck,
5 on the step and 5 in the riser.

1 x Post Lights Kit
(Contains 4 post-light fittings with spikes at
base and 1 transformer. These are to go in the
flower bed along the right-hand edge of the deck.

All kits are supplied with standard, fuse-rated
plugs which are intended to be "plugged in" to
domestic, 240v wall sockets INSIDE the house!
Everything else is external rated and can be
located outside.

I would rather avoid routing the plugs into the
house and have to chase-out and install 3 new
double sockets, in the nearest wall! This'd be
a lot of work, look unsightly and not be an ideal
situation for controlling the lights.

A much better solution would be for me to 'spur off'
of an existing 10mm, 3-core, armor cable that is
buried in the flower bed, on the right, and sends
juice to the sheds at the far-end of the garden.

This is where I need advice... assuming I take the
spur cable (using new armored cable), under the
deck and to the front edge, could I remove the plugs
from the 4 kits and connect the flexes to 3 separate,
externally approved switches that are protected by
fuses of the same rating as was in the plugs? (do such
devices exist?). These would all be fitted in a line,
one next to the other, along the front edge of the
deck and would all be connected (in series?) to the
spur cable. I am aware that a spur should normally
only supply a single socket - hence my uncertainty.
I'm also in doubt about connecting the 2 transformers
(supplying power to the 6 x 50mm Round lights) to
the 1 switch, so that they are all controlled via
that.

Another alternative, regarding switching control
rather than nature of installation, that I'm considering
is to have ALL the kits controlled by just the one
switch. This again conjures up a host of queries to
me, as to how this could be catered for... perhaps by
locating the 1 switch, before the lighting circuits,
on the main armored spur?

Can anyone tell me if I've got this all wrong and
suggest an appropriate method? To assist anyone
kind enough to help, I have uploaded a diagram that
illustrates my plan and this can be viewed here...

http://d.heighington.users.btopenwor...k_lighting.jpg

Also, here's a link to the specs of the flower bed,
post lights. I can't seem to find specs for the 2
other kits, but they are the same manufacturer and,
I think, are of the same rating!...

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/produc...67&paintCatId=

Many thanks,

Dean