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I'm not sure that having an external on/off switch is a good idea...

Your "current detector pen" is picking up stray voltage capacitively coupled into the cables from adjacent wiring. Inserting a lamp shorts out that stray voltage. Get a proper two-terminal voltage tester, or a multimeter, or an electrician, because this apparent strange behaviour is not why your...

What wattage is it?

There's your problem. They often give false results. Get a proper two-terminal voltage tester, or a multimeter.

IP65 does not mean it will be free from condensation. As already stated, an insulated box around the CU might help. Industrial distribution boards and control panels are sometimes fitted with heaters to prevent condensation.

I suspect their concern was more about dwellings than sheds.

Did you mean 100 mm Bernard?

Unsecured gas pipe, switched cpc, and the cable about to be cut... looks like one of those Hollywood films where the assassin is setting up someone's house to kill them in an explosion!

How would you like someone with a torch watching you when you have to go? :mrgreen:

Not according to the questions/answers on Amazon.

I thought the Romans had left by the 1970s!

I agree, which is why I didn't use it in my first comment.

Yes, I think you did. The OP used the old term 'lamps' to mean the luminaires, which he said were good quality. My point was that if the G9 capsules were not enclosed by the luminaires then the luminaires were not of good quality. Is that better?

I was trying to use terminology the OP would understand, instead of the correct terminology, as should have been clear from my earlier post.

Me too.

I'm sure it was.

Not just against being yanked out, but against being loosened, which leads to high resistance and overheating.

Insulating tape is not suitable. They need to be in a rigid enclosure, and strain relief means that the terminations (connections) are not subjected to any strain when the cables outside the enclosure are moved about.

I refer the Honourable Gentleman to posts #26 and #27.

If you can enclose them and provide strain relief.