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Hi John, the trouble with that is that I then end up with a maze of conduit on the ceiling. This is what I’ve done - see pic. The two white cables are the free in and the feed for the second lamp. I’ve added the two grey cables - one for the new third light. Then the other grey goes to the...

Thank you John. Yes you’re right, there’s not enough room in the lamp’s terminals for there cables. I’ll have to add a choc bloc in the lamp for the three cables then add a short length of cable to lamps terminals. Not ideal but I can’t thinkbof anything else?

Having opened the first light to take a feed from it, I’ve discovered that it is already feeding the existing second light. See pic. Can I still take a feed for a third light? And can I then take feed from the existing second light to the fourth? Many thanks

Hello again, thinking of the cable to buy - would 1.5mm twin core plus earth be right? Many thanks

Sorry for being super cautious but just to be safe on ensuring that I’m not overloading the circuit by adding two more lights. The garage seems to be on it’s own circuit. Here’s a pic from the consumer unit. I’ve tried turning off just the garage at the consumer unit and checking lights in the...

I’m no fan of JB’s. How would you do the job? Take the feed for the second light direct from the terminals inside the first light?

Thank you. For the tidiest job, I could take the cable out of the existing light, feed it into a new junction box on the ceiling, then run new cable to each of the two lights (the existing one and the new one). Can you see any issues with this?

Hi all, a bit of advice would be appreciated please... In my garage, I have two single flourescent lights/tubes. They are both run off the same switch. I’d like to add two more lights. Can I just take a feed from each light for each new light? Effectively daisy chaining. Many thanks in advance.

Good idea, easy to do that. The bulbs are replacement - if “led modules” means bulbs.

It’s a very good point your make and I’m all for reducing light pollution. But I can’t see how I’d add a switch unless it’s one of those outdoor ones. I wouldn’t really want a wall switch in the living room - it’s in the external wall of the living room that the light will be mounted.

Any reason not to situate the FCU outside? Like this: https://www.toolstation.com/bg-ip55-switched-connection-unit/p51972

I installed a light over Easter at the front of the house, had to drill a hole through the wall for that. I was just interested in why the light should be fed from an upstairs socket, whether it a was a regulatory thing. I guess I’ve confused matters by calling it a “security light”, this was...

I can’t see how I’d access the lighting circuit, there aren’t any cables close to the wall. What’s the reason for using an upstairs spur instead of downstairs? I could do this as there is a socket in bedroom upstairs close to where the light will be situated. Just interested as to why upstairs?

Sorry didn’t reply to your other question, I don’t need a switch, it’ll be always on via PIR

Ah I see, so basically make the existing outside Ah I see, so basically make the outdoor socket part of the ring rather than a spur? Then add a spur from the outside socket. I’m not qualified - am I allowed to do that? Many thanks.

Thanks. If I can add two spurs to one socket, this would save me having to drill a hole. In a previous post I mentioned about a lengthy cable run but I’m changing the outdoor lamp position so now only looking at about 5m of cable. Thanks for the help!

Hmm, I haven’t checked but since the outdoor socket is adjacent to the indoor socket, the outdoor socket is probably already on a spur. I’ll double check. It’s not allowed to have two spurs off one socket is it? If not, then I guess I’ll have to just plug the light into the outdoor socket.

How would I be able to tell this? It’s a new build house so the outdoor socket was installed by the developer. It’s on the external wall to the living room, adjacent to a socket in the living room itself.

Thank you. But since I’ve used cat5e to extend the cable, is this ok/safe given this it’s coming from a 240v chime albeit with a transformer? Many thanks.

Or maybe the original installer had used CAT cable anyway? See pic, the cable in going into the top of the bloc is the ordinal and at the bottom is my extension... obviously I’ll tidy it all up...