Hi Guys, although I've spent some years as a domestic installer mainly fitting showers and some domestic rewires, I now need to wire some emergency lighting in some flats that I have bought, but now am realising there is more to it than I initially thought.
My initial thoughts were to have all of the normal luminaires on timed movement sensors, such that there would be no wall switches at all and the circuit would be switched from a single switch next to the consumer unit and have the non maintained (individual batteries in each light) emergency luminaires wired to the same circuit.
All of the areas are lit by natural light such that turning off the main switch would bring on the emergency lighting as a test without leaving the place in darkness (assuming the test is done in daylight!).
a/ is there anything actually wrong with this approach
b/ what else do I need to do?
Call me tight but I don't particularly want to pay £95 for BS5266 for about a page worth of info on what is likely to be a one off job.
Thanks
Gary
My initial thoughts were to have all of the normal luminaires on timed movement sensors, such that there would be no wall switches at all and the circuit would be switched from a single switch next to the consumer unit and have the non maintained (individual batteries in each light) emergency luminaires wired to the same circuit.
All of the areas are lit by natural light such that turning off the main switch would bring on the emergency lighting as a test without leaving the place in darkness (assuming the test is done in daylight!).
a/ is there anything actually wrong with this approach
b/ what else do I need to do?
Call me tight but I don't particularly want to pay £95 for BS5266 for about a page worth of info on what is likely to be a one off job.
Thanks
Gary