More ceiling lights...

[ripvan]

to install a new ceiling/wall light, can a cable be run and ended at the light fitting, or does the new wiring have to continue from the light fitting back to the existing loop (to complete a circuit).

So, from loop to light and back to loop?
Or, from loop to light?

It will be switched, but it is the concept in which I'm interested.

Thanks...

 

[breezer]

the first bir is right (it stops at the last light) this may help

 

[ripvan]

I must be a bit thick today, but I've confused what you've stated and what the diagram shows.

The diagram from your link (light hanging down from ceiling) shows the cabling terminating at that light fitting.

So, can I tap into existing loop and run a spur to a switched light fitting (without having to continue *that* cabling back to the loop?)

I hope the question makes sense? Maybe its just so obvious that I can't see it, but I've run some new cabling in our low-pitched ceiling and really don't want to go back up until I've got my facts straight )

 

[breezer]

I must be a bit thick today, but I've confused what you've stated and what the diagram shows.

The diagram from your link (light hanging down from ceiling) shows the cabling terminating at that light fitting.

So, can I tap into existing loop and run a spur to a switched light fitting (without having to continue *that* cabling back to the loop?)

yes

 

[MANDATE]

A lighting circuit is fed first to one light ,then a cable continues to the next one and so on until you run out of lights. The last light will not have any out going cable.
It is now a matter of choice, if your new light is near the last one of the run take the cable from there , if not, you can break into any part of the lighting cables between lights and insert a 3 terminal junction box and run a cable to your new ceiling rose

 

[ripvan]

thanks MANDATE....clear enough for my fuddled brain to grasp it.

For some reason I had it in mind that each (series) of light(s) had to return to the main loop. I ran enough cable to do that and then for the life of me couldn't figure out what to do with all the cable ends, lol.

Thanks also to breezer. I note that the two of you help to keep we amateur electricians alive

 

[MANDATE]

It must be the way we tell it,!!