Greetings all, and happy Friday!
I'm installing an illuminated (LED) cupboard in a bedroom (it's a bathroom cabinet, but daughter wants it for make-up etc above her dressing table).
I have added a new 2-gang socket near where the cabinet is going (had to run the new socket on a single T&E from a FSU as there was no room to run an extension to the ring behind the plasterboard as 2 x 2.5mm cables would probably have pushed the plasterboard off the dabs! The FSU feeding the new socket is spurred off the ring and the FSU is located in the loft (so not ideal access but easy enough.)
I have also extended the lighting circuit to put in some cabinet lights, but to get a live from the lighting down to the cabinet is a pig and I don't fancy taking a feed from the switch live to the new (separately) switchable cabinet lights, so I was wondering if I could wire the cabinet into the new spur, i.e. by taking another feed from the new 2-gang socket?
If so, should I add another FSU between the socket and the mirror lights? That whole spur can be isolated from the ring anyway, but should the mirror lights be able to be isolated separately from the rest of the spur (so we could, for example, change the mirror without isolating the rest of the spur). Fitting another FSU would be simple to do, just wondered if I actually need it?
Many thanks
I'm installing an illuminated (LED) cupboard in a bedroom (it's a bathroom cabinet, but daughter wants it for make-up etc above her dressing table).
I have added a new 2-gang socket near where the cabinet is going (had to run the new socket on a single T&E from a FSU as there was no room to run an extension to the ring behind the plasterboard as 2 x 2.5mm cables would probably have pushed the plasterboard off the dabs! The FSU feeding the new socket is spurred off the ring and the FSU is located in the loft (so not ideal access but easy enough.)
I have also extended the lighting circuit to put in some cabinet lights, but to get a live from the lighting down to the cabinet is a pig and I don't fancy taking a feed from the switch live to the new (separately) switchable cabinet lights, so I was wondering if I could wire the cabinet into the new spur, i.e. by taking another feed from the new 2-gang socket?
If so, should I add another FSU between the socket and the mirror lights? That whole spur can be isolated from the ring anyway, but should the mirror lights be able to be isolated separately from the rest of the spur (so we could, for example, change the mirror without isolating the rest of the spur). Fitting another FSU would be simple to do, just wondered if I actually need it?
Many thanks