Under cuboard lights

[tflda29]

Hello all,

I am looking at fitting under cubooard low voltage lights with transformer and was wondering what the best way to go was:-

a) Take a spur from a nearby ring main socket to a switched FCU....is this allowed?

b) Take a spur from the lighting circuit to an FCU above the cuboards and also connect via main light switch?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks
Trevor

 

[electronicsuk]

You're powering lights, so wire them into the lighting circuit and (as I assume you'll want to control them separately from your main lights) into a two gang switch. I wouldn't bother with an FCU unless you really need it, the transformer will be internally fused and the only reason I can see to use a FCU would be if the transformer is fitted with a flying lead rather than screw terminals on the mains side.