Getting myself a little worried here - any input would be greatly appreciated (including any corrections to my maths)
Currently have 5 rooms on a single lighting circuit with about 200W of bulbs in each room (and boy are some of the rooms dark!!)
I make that 1.1KW and therefore about 4.8A if everything was on.
Having played around with options, we've worked out we need to stick almost 30 halogen downlighters (mains) in one room to light the whole area which, mixing 50W and 35W bulbs, comes to about 1200W.
Also an external light is also on this circuit which I wanted to uprate to a 500W halogen with PIR. (I think this should really be on a different circuit but ....)
All told, that gives me almost 2KW, or almost 2.4KW (10A) if I include the outside light.
The cabling is 1.5mm which I understand will handle 3KW (13A).
Is it ok to just change the MCB from 5A to 10A, or is there something I'm missing ????
Cheers,
Currently have 5 rooms on a single lighting circuit with about 200W of bulbs in each room (and boy are some of the rooms dark!!)
I make that 1.1KW and therefore about 4.8A if everything was on.
Having played around with options, we've worked out we need to stick almost 30 halogen downlighters (mains) in one room to light the whole area which, mixing 50W and 35W bulbs, comes to about 1200W.
Also an external light is also on this circuit which I wanted to uprate to a 500W halogen with PIR. (I think this should really be on a different circuit but ....)
All told, that gives me almost 2KW, or almost 2.4KW (10A) if I include the outside light.
The cabling is 1.5mm which I understand will handle 3KW (13A).
Is it ok to just change the MCB from 5A to 10A, or is there something I'm missing ????
Cheers,