how does your lighting circuit work

[kevin1234]

This is b****y ridiculous.

I know im only qualified and all!

What course did you do to become qualified, and when did you do it?

i did a normal apprenticeship

How does electricity work?

In your lighting circuit i assume they are wired in parallel? how does it still work if a lamp blows and does your electricity flow back through to Neutral

You're a qualified electrician.

How can you still be at the stage of "assuming" the lights are wired in parallel?

How can you possibly not understand current flow in basic circuits?

yea so even if any of the bulbs do decide to pop, it doesnt have to go through the bulb first to get back to neutral is that correct?

You're a qualified electrician. What kind of qualified electrician asks something like that?

it just goes through the neutral cable that is connected, and what about the last light in the line how does the neutral get back to the board?

You're a qualified electrician???

that what i dont understand how can there be a return path if the bulb has blown doesnt that make the final connection with the return path??

You're a qualified electrician???

Could somebody explain with the aid of a drawing thanks.

You're a qualified electrician and you do not have, or know where to find, or in fact have never even seen, a diagram of a lighting circuit?

so can somebody please explain this, what if the last bulb is blown hows does the neutral manage to return to neutral if the path is broken because of the last bulb is blown ?

You're a qualified electrician???

You said you were, in which case this post makes you an annoying and time-wasting little ****.

Or if you're not a qualified electrician then you are an annoying and time-wasting lying little ****.

Either way, just **** off and never come back.


Oh - and note to the mod - before you decide that those ****s mean something objectionable, and decide to remove or edit this post, please spend 10-15 minutes looking through this guy's post history and ask yourself how genuine he is.

how about u F*** o** u unhelpful p****

 

[Guitarguy]

The lights are 'tapped' onto the circuit so i suppose if you look at a circuit diagram of a parallel circuit, if one of the bulbs in that circuit blows, the others still light and the live (pos/neg) and neutral are still there regardless

Yea so like im thinking is this correct if the last bulb pops the way back for the neutral is through the bulb before that is that correct,

the neutral has to go through the bulb for it to be able to go back to neutral is that correct?

 

[kevin1234]

The lights are 'tapped' onto the circuit so i suppose if you look at a circuit diagram of a parallel circuit, if one of the bulbs in that circuit blows, the others still light and the live (pos/neg) and neutral are still there regardless

Yea so like im thinking is this correct if the last bulb pops the way back for the neutral is through the bulb before that is that correct,

the neutral has to go through the bulb for it to be able to go back to neutral is that correct?

so what i am saying is correct yea? the return path is via the other light? going through the other light and back correct?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

how about u F*** o** u unhelpful p****

How about you explaining just how and why you consider yourself to be a qualified electrician?

 

[JBPElectrics]

Oh how I hate to agree..............

F@~+ OFF!

You give us all a bad name, qualified and asking such rediculous questions

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Oh how I hate to agree..............

That's OK - I won't hold you to it in the morning.

 

[ColJack]

View media item 20908 View media item 20909
pic 1 shows current flow through all of the lamps
pic 2 shows last lamp blown but current flow still through the other lamps.

 

[kevin1234]

View media item 20908 View media item 20909
pic 1 shows current flow through all of the lamps
pic 2 shows last lamp blown but current flow still through the other lamps.

Thanks very much

 

[kevin1234]

doesnt the switches have to be on for the neutral to return through the bulb though?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Kev - got you a picture for your profile....

 

[kevin1234]

doesnt the switches have to be on for the neutral to return through the bulb though?

 

[JBPElectrics]

This has to be a warm up for next week, even Mr and Mrs B+Q stick all the red wires together, wouldnt ask such questions..........

Ah, thats it !!!!! YOU are you the same qualified, part p chap who asked how to wire a B+Q light bought by his wife?

 

[ColJack]

oh behave.. that's an simplified drawing because you cannot grasp a simple idea...

yes lights don't light if the switch isn't on... so yes, the switch has to be on for current to flow...

you ought to consider re-training as a plasterer..
"mix it with water, slop it on the wall" that's about the most complicated bit of theory a plasterer needs to know.. the rest is skill and art..

 

[Taylortwocities]

doesnt the switches have to be on for the neutral to return through the bulb though?

But the switch is in the live conductor to each individual lamp..

I thought you said you were a qualified electrician.

 

[oharaf]

Kev you are simply here to get a rise out of BAS aren't you!!!!!!!!!!!!


If not, then you are definitely an embarrasment to the trade!!!