Fitting Outdoor Light Indoors

[brooks693]

Just checking before I get an electrician round.

After finding no wall lights that she liked, my girlfriend bought an outdoor light with the hope of fitting it indoors. It would be replacing an existing ceiling light. It does say not to wire to a lighting ring, is there a reason for this.

 

[wingcoax]

Without knowing what type of light the gf bought it is impossible to say exactly why, BUT there must be a very good reason. I would suggest taking it back and going with her to look for another(light that is)

 

[bernardgreen]

The reason may be connected with outside lamps being more prone to damp causing earth leakage trips. The manufacturers may consider this is a good reason to not connect to the lighting circuit in order to allow indoor lights when the outdoor lamp cannot be connected due to it being damp.

 

[brooks693]

It was this light.

http://m.homebase.co.uk/mt/www.home...51&partNumber=636070&un_jtt_v_unSetCookie=yes

 

[sparkwright]

Can't see why that can't be connected to a lighting circuit, inside or outside.

Does it actually say 'lighting ring'?

There's no such thing normally.

Can you print exactly what it says?

 

[Taylortwocities]

I see no reason why it couldn't go indoors.

Except for the look of the thing, of course

 

[sparkwright]

Hang on.

You want to fit that on the CEILING?

No, no, no. That's a wall light.

 

[brooks693]

No no no I want to remove the ceiling light and fit this outdoor light in its place in the circuit. I don't have the instructions to hand but I remember it saying Fused Spur somewhere. I'll find them out later.

 

[sparkwright]

If you couldn't connect the light to a lighting circuit, you could connect to a socket ring or radial circuit, via a fused spur unit.

Is that what the instructions meant?

 

[vv2806]

Do you mean there will be no ceiling light and you will have one wall light instead? I have lived in a room with similar arrangement (2 wall lights) and it was quite dark. After a couple of months we installed a ceiling light, which made a massive difference.