Originally Posted by
danlat1415
I'm trying to install 2 wall light in my house.
Couple of questions that need answering...
1) The closest neutral wire is in another room, and don't want to wreck decorating in there too. Is it possible to use the neutral from a plug socket?
how come you have live and earth but no neutral, are you taking the feed from a 3 plate light switch? (ie:- live feed, switch wire to existing lights and an earth?)
Its actually against the wiring regs to "borrow a neutral" from another circuit escpecially so when you are borrowing from power to run lighting, This may also cause you problems with rcd's / rcbo's elcb's etc that keep tripping or it may cause the circuit to not trip out or blow in the event of a fault, neutrals can be the cause of numerous wiring faults. Dont forget to include an earth in the circuit, otherwise it will fail any electrical inspection you may have done in the future.
2) Do I need a new permanent live feed going to the switch, or can I jump the live over from another switch in same socket.
Again is it power or lighting..?? (are you taking the feed from a 13A socket or light switch?
Also when wiring up 2 wall lights, do they need to be in a loop or in-line?
(connect to wall socket, then lamp1, then lamp2, then back to wall socket) or (connect to wall socket, then lamp1, then lamp2)?
there is no need to wire them as a ring circuit, they would only need to be wired as you say "in line" (radial circuit) Wall lights should be fed from lighting circuits, If you are taking the feeds from wall sockets (13A power sockets) then they wil need to be fused down via a switched fused spur with 3A or 5A fuses.
I've done electrical wiring in an electrical engineering course at college but it was few years back. Just refreshing my memory...
On another note, it's not good when a light switch buzzes very slightly when you turn a light on.. what can cause this? It wasn't me by the way, it was already like that, but don't like using that switch.
A buzzing light switch will normally be loose terminations or it could indicate wear on the contacts, isolate the circuit and re-tighten them all, if its a dimmer switch and it buzzes its more than likely just the loading, but it may also indiacate that it needs replacing aswell.
Thanks
Dan
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