Spur Off Lighting Circuit

The first image is how the back of your double socket should look and the second is the wiring for a spur.

Spur off lighting circuit. Ha and just wondering if we can utilise the existing light fitting that is in the centre of the bedroom ceiling to tap into the loop and spur off two light fittings each with their own switch. Feed the spur cable into the junction box. I a ceiling rose to bs 67 ii a luminaire supporting coupler to bs 6972 or bs 7001 iii a batten lampholder to bs 7895 bs en 60238 or bs en 61184 iv a luminaire designed to be connected directly to the circuit wiring. Hi in this video i m showing how to make a light spur from socket outlet that s on ring circuit.

Or should we extend the loop to flow through these two new lights and then return to the original loop location and connect back with a junction box. As davey says yes you can spur of it. You can add as many lights as you want but dont exceed the rating of the cable or make the circuit too long that it exceeds the voltage drop limits and or the maximum earth fault loop impedance. Cut off the power supply to the relevant circuit from the consumer unit.

I don t think anyone is suggesting that 5a sockets should be used all over a premises for low powered appliances but they are useful in certain situations like this one. Unscrew the junction box cover. As far as i can tell i have the circuit detailed at the top of this page method 1 as i see no junction boxes in my loft and each rose only appears to have one cable running to it house was built 2008 and we re in scotland if that tends towards a certain circuit style. The spur must be connected to the existing circuit using the same cable as used in the main circuit.

553 04 lighting points 553 04 01 at each fixed lighting point one of the following accessories shall be used. The wall light has its own switch and i want to operate it independently from the ceiling lights so i know i have to connect to the main lighting. The existing wire is the usual 1mm. See attached picture of connections i asuume that i will need change the terminal blocks for a small junction box or put in a chocbox enclosure.

What the op was asking about was a spur off the lighting circuit in the loft where there is only a lighting circuit a 5a socket or fcu is covered by the regs so what is the problem with that. Prepare the cable route for the spur from the junction box to the new lighting point using 1mm 2 two core and earth spur cable. 13 amp socket spur off lighting circuit. You can see how to wire a spur to an existing socket from the images below.

Can i simply take a spur off of the lighting circuit. I ve done wall socket spurs before but this is my first lighting spur.