Downlight Wiring

locosaki1978 · 30 Aug 2014

I've just installed the wiring for my down lights into my kitchen/dinning room, now there's 14 lights over the complete area.

I've taken the live from the existing pendant and I have linked each light to continue the circuit, now when I came to the end of the loop should I tie the furthest light on the line back to the pendant, giving a live from both ends ?

Hope this makes sense.

AndyPRK · 30 Aug 2014

Nope.

wingcoax · 30 Aug 2014

What cable did you use? is it suitable for purpose? Do you know anything about electricity?

locosaki1978 · 30 Aug 2014

It was 1.5mm into the original pendant, I've run 1.5mm to all down lights.

I'm a gas engineer so have knowledge of electrics, I'm just curious as to whether I should do as I stated on my first post.

Cheers

RF Lighting · 30 Aug 2014

locosaki1978 said:
I'm a gas engineer so have knowledge of electrics,

I'm just curious as to whether I should do as I stated on my first post.

Nope.

winston1 · 30 Aug 2014

locosaki1978 said:
I've just installed the wiring for my down lights into my kitchen/dinning room, now there's 14 lights over the complete area.

I hope they are LEDs not 50watt halogens.

Taylortwocities · 31 Aug 2014

winston1 said:
I hope they are LEDs not 50watt halogens.

If they are 50W halogens, at least the boiler won't to do too much work

locosaki1978 · 31 Aug 2014

Haha, yeah all led lamps.

ban-all-sheds · 31 Aug 2014

But do you need 14 of them because your rooms are enormous, or because you've decided to use lights which aren't actually very good at lighting up rooms, so you have to use lots of them to compensate?

mrcrow · 31 Aug 2014

locosaki1978 said:
I've just installed the wiring for my down lights into my kitchen/dinning room, now there's 14 lights over the complete area.

I've taken the live from the existing pendant and I have linked each light to continue the circuit, now when I came to the end of the loop should I tie the furthest light on the line back to the pendant, giving a live from both ends ?

Hope this makes sense.

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