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  1. MarkButNoSpark

    Replacing plastic outside light with Metal type

    Ok, so I have checked out the circuits and both my upstairs and downstairs are each covered by there own RCD, so contrary to advice outside of this forum and perhaps logic, the lighting will switch off If the oven trips the circuit. The lamps I purchased are of good quality, in some ways better...
  2. MarkButNoSpark

    Replacing plastic outside light with Metal type

    Now Guys I didn't come on here to cause a bust UP!, sound like you have gone rounds before Ha Ha! I looked on the manufactures site and they seem to give the same advice for everything, I have fired off an email to them as well, my feeling is they are covering themselves and putting the wind up...
  3. MarkButNoSpark

    Replacing plastic outside light with Metal type

    Yes I had considered this, not an attractive piece of kit but an option, if I can get a deeper box in, did you also keep an isolation switch in place as seems normal for outside lights or did you use a Fused RCD.
  4. MarkButNoSpark

    Replacing plastic outside light with Metal type

    The light is a Biard Le Mans Round IP44 Double Up Down Outdoor Wall Light with with PIR Motion Sensor - Black Finish - GU10 Garden Lamp Waterproof Lamp, CE, RoHS & LVD certified. I had a quick look at the switch connections the other day and three cables terminate in there so 3xN, 3xL, 3xE, so...
  5. MarkButNoSpark

    Replacing plastic outside light with Metal type

    I knew my consumer unit had an rcd, but checking again, paying more attention, it has two, if the electrician had lab led them both up I would have a better idea which circuits they cover. I will test them out on Saturday, so thank you guys, and EFLImpudence for making me check again...
  6. MarkButNoSpark

    Replacing plastic outside light with Metal type

    It has PIR and Max watt is 35amp. But sounds as though I would need to run a spur from a socket rather than the existing lighting circuit, unless you can put an RCD off the lighting circuit in place/along side of the isolation switch, but never seen anything like this before, well not with a...
  7. MarkButNoSpark

    Replacing plastic outside light with Metal type

    Hi I was looking to change a broken outside light which is of plastic construction with a new Stainless Steel one, my house is only 5 years old so all the wiring is new. But the instructions on the new light state, and I quote;- Do not wire this lantern into the lighting circuit - use a...
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