Replace 60W Outdoor Light With Dual Ring Floodlights

[jk1989]

Part one of my project is complete, replacing a straight up outdoor light with a ring floodlight camera, which is listed as being 24W.

This first light is powered from a switch on the inside of the house which is running from the lighting ring protected by a 6A fuse in the main fusebox (and also a 30ma RCD)

My question is in 3 parts:

1: Can i install a second ring light which is also 24W around the corner, and ca i take the feed the feed for this from the first light using the connector strip within the light (Im pretty sure there is sufficient room)

2: If the first question is OK, then what wire is acceptable to run from light one to light two around the side of the house (no longer than 3M at most) and is a 0.75 core diameter enough. I was contemplating hituf as its not much more than the rubber flex wire for the short run as again other advice on the forum suggests this sort of cable for similar jobs.

3: Should the indoor normal light switch be replaced with a fused switch with a 3A fuse, advice on other forums seems to suggest most would be installed in this way.

 

[EFLImpudence]

1. Yes.
2. Yes. Rubber will do.
3. No.

 

[ericmark]

Yes
Yes
And for out side lights I would want a switched neutral, so if water gets in switching off light will allow interior lights to work without tripping the RCD, the switched FCU does have a two pole switch in the main, but you don't really need even a 1 amp fuse, as in the main the MCB will trip before the fuse will rupture, so the fuse does not help. If the supply was taken from the socket supply, i.e. a supply fused over the 16 amp permitted for most bulbs, then the switched FCU makes sense, common in a shed for example, but outside lights a simple two pole switch. However saying that my outside lights are on a single pole switch, was like that when I moved in. Should it trip I would loose a third of my lights, but most rooms have some lights from the sockets, so not too bad, it would be different if I only had 2 RCD's but I have 14 RCBO's (RCD and MCB combined) so not enough of a likely problem to be worth changing.