Have You Ever Seen This Before On A Ceiling?

[securespark]

No, not the light fittings.

Not even the fused connection unit.

But the two gang light switch??!!

That's a first for me.

 

[ebee]

Are you refring to the switches, the luminaires or both?

I have seen a switch for a bathroom extrator fan on a ceiling just once (because it was I who installed it as a means of isolating the fan whilst avoiding the then zones).

 

[ericmark]

I have seen switched behind a suspended ceiling, so one section could be isolated to swap the lighting modules without turning off all the lamps, but it was my job at the time to change it to plug in ceiling roses so they were not required any more.

Idea it seems was the work could carry on in the room while the electrician changed lights, but in practice, everyone stopped work to watch the electrician, so it did not work.

 

[SUNRAY]

In commercial properties like that such installations are very common.
The FCU's are normal for power drops to desks and light switches for zone control, emergency lights test or isolation for maintenance etc.

 

[JohnW2]

No, not the light fittings. ... Not even the fused connection unit. .... But the two gang light switch??!! ...

No, albeit my experience is limited, I've never seen quite that.

I've certainly seen FCUs, maybe even switched ones, on and sockets on ceilings, but not 'light switches'. However, I have, over the years/decades, seen a good few accessories installed very high upon walls (far to high to be reached without a ladder/whatever), so 'almost' on the ceiling.

 

[Koolpc]

It's obvious!! The light switch is there for the spiders to turn the lights on and off!

 

[ebee]

It's obvious!! The light switch is there for the spiders to turn the lights on and off!

Yes Good. Why didn`t we realise that!

 

[JohnW2]

Yes Good. Why didn`t we realise that!

Maybe because we thought that spiders utilise some new-fangled method of switching lights on and off from their phones?

 

[SUNRAY]

Oh. I thought they relied on the other bugs such as ants and ladybirds to pack into the backbox so tightly they eventually short out the supply and trip the MCB or RCD.

 

[pete01]

Did you switch it? What does it do?

 

[JohnW2]

Oh. I thought they relied on the other bugs such as ants and ladybirds to pack into the backbox so tightly they eventually short out the supply and trip the MCB or RCD.

I don't think so - because they presumably would like to be able to turn the lights on as well as off

 

[SUNRAY]

I don't think so - because they presumably would like to be able to turn the lights on as well as off

Dang... there just had to be a catch

 

[securespark]

Did you switch it? What does it do?

Nah. It was in the dining room of the hotel we stayed in in Carlisle. You'd need a goodly pole to prod it with!

 

[ebee]

Nah. It was in the dining room of the hotel we stayed in in Carlisle. You'd need a goodly pole to prod it with!

But surely you could have used your long pointy stick, most people carry a pointy stick constantly to poke miscreants in the eye with, the majority of those people make it a long one or a telescopic one thereby increasing permissible usage and/or scope of usage, its just common sense, innit?

 

[securespark]

This is the nearest thing I could find that is portable...