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Can one connect a shaver socket to a lighting circuit?
I'm going to install a shaver socket and I'm wondering if it's OK to
connect it direct to a lighting circuit. The previous one I installed has an FCU from the ring main but it would be much easier to use the (quite nearby) lighting circuit for this new one. The lighting circuit does have an earth wire and is standard 'looped in' so there's unswitched live and neutral easily available. -- Chris Green · |
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Can one connect a shaver socket to a lighting circuit?
Chris Green wrote:
I'm going to install a shaver socket and I'm wondering if it's OK to connect it direct to a lighting circuit. More than OK, I'd say it was usual. |
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Can one connect a shaver socket to a lighting circuit?
On 30/11/2017 16:34, Chris Green wrote:
I'm going to install a shaver socket and I'm wondering if it's OK to connect it direct to a lighting circuit. Yup, its commonly done. (especially on combined lighting / shaver socket fittings!) The previous one I installed has an FCU from the ring main but it would be much easier to use the (quite nearby) lighting circuit for this new one. The lighting circuit does have an earth wire and is standard 'looped in' so there's unswitched live and neutral easily available. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Can one connect a shaver socket to a lighting circuit?
On 30/11/2017 16:51, Andy Burns wrote:
Chris Green wrote: I'm going to install a shaver socket and I'm wondering if it's OK to connect it direct to a lighting circuit. More than OK, I'd say it was usual. +1 -- Adam |
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Can one connect a shaver socket to a lighting circuit?
John Rumm wrote:
On 30/11/2017 16:34, Chris Green wrote: I'm going to install a shaver socket and I'm wondering if it's OK to connect it direct to a lighting circuit. Yup, its commonly done. (especially on combined lighting / shaver socket fittings!) The previous one I installed has an FCU from the ring main but it would be much easier to use the (quite nearby) lighting circuit for this new one. The lighting circuit does have an earth wire and is standard 'looped in' so there's unswitched live and neutral easily available. OK, thanks all, that's a 'yes' then! -- Chris Green · |
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Can one connect a shaver socket to a lighting circuit?
On 30/11/17 16:51, Andy Burns wrote:
Chris Green wrote: I'm going to install a shaver socket and I'm wondering if it's OK to connect it direct to a lighting circuit. More than OK, I'd say it was usual. Yes - it's standard practise. |
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Can one connect a shaver socket to a lighting circuit?
On 30/11/2017 20:15, Chris Green wrote:
John Rumm wrote: On 30/11/2017 16:34, Chris Green wrote: I'm going to install a shaver socket and I'm wondering if it's OK to connect it direct to a lighting circuit. Yup, its commonly done. (especially on combined lighting / shaver socket fittings!) The previous one I installed has an FCU from the ring main but it would be much easier to use the (quite nearby) lighting circuit for this new one. The lighting circuit does have an earth wire and is standard 'looped in' so there's unswitched live and neutral easily available. OK, thanks all, that's a 'yes' then! Well with a bit of luck harry will be along with a "no" just to confirm it is a "yes". -- Adam |
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