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[John D v2.0]

What's a lighting circuit?

A lighting circuit is a circuit wired in 1.0mm² cable or larger (and powering at least one fixed light?)

 

[EFLImpudence]

That sounds like a cooker circuit.

 

[securespark]

If you are a sparks and don't know that it is time you found another career.

We'd like you to tell us.

 

[winston1]

What if, hypothetically, the circuit served six fans, six shaver sockets and one light, or some such combination of loads. Would it still be a 'lighting circuit'?

Kind Regards, John

Hypothetically yes.

 

[winston1]

That sounds like a cooker circuit.

You definitely need to find another career if you think a cooker circuit can be wired in 1.0 mm cable.

 

[winston1]

We'd like you to tell us.

John D has done.

 

[flameport]

You definitely need to find another career if you think a cooker circuit can be wired in 1.0 mm cable.

Clearly it was for a gas cooker, so the power requirements were only for the ignition device and a light inside the oven, making it a lighting circuit after all.

 

[winston1]

Clearly it was for a gas cooker, so the power requirements were only for the ignition device and a light inside the oven, making it a lighting circuit after all.

No it is not as there is no fixed light.

 

[EFLImpudence]

I connected a fixed light to it - and there was one in the hood.



Is a piece of paper the defining factor? .

 

[JohnW2]

You definitely need to find another career if you think a cooker circuit can be wired in 1.0 mm cable.

He would, but what about what JohnD actually wrote ....

.... a circuit wired in 1.0mm² cable or larger ....

??

Kind Regards, John

 

[JohnW2]

A lighting circuit is a circuit wired in 1.0mm² cable or larger (and powering at least one fixed light?)

As EFLI has implied if, like you and winston, one says that just one fixed light supplied by a circuit renders it a 'lighting' circuit, then all sorts of circuits (like EFLI's cooker example, and many circuits primarily supplying sockets) would qualify as 'lighting circuits', and that would obviously be ridiculous/daft.

If we must have a distinction between 'lighting' and 'power' circuits (and I personally don't see why we need one), the I would have thought that the only sensible definition of a 'lighting' circuit would be along the lines that it 'primarily'/'largely'/whatever supplied lighting loads.

... and what happens about the 'heavy' stuff - is the circuit supplying, say, the floodlighting of Wembley Stadium not a 'lighting circuit' (since I imagine that it has an OPD >16A) ??

Kind Regards, John

 

[Exinferis]

*Pops in to see if there's an answer to my initial question* Nope *Leaves*

 

[motorbiking]

You definitely need to find another career if you think a cooker circuit can be wired in 1.0 mm cable.

slow cooker.

 

[winston1]

*Pops in to see if there's an answer to my initial question* Nope *Leaves*

The answer is to get a spark out who can study it on site and see what is what.

 

[winston1]

As EFLI has implied if, like you and winston, one says that just one fixed light supplied by a circuit renders it a 'lighting' circuit, then all sorts of circuits (like EFLI's cooker example, and many circuits primarily supplying sockets) would qualify as 'lighting circuits', and that would obviously be ridiculous/daft.

If we must have a distinction between 'lighting' and 'power' circuits (and I personally don't see why we need one), the I would have thought that the only sensible definition of a 'lighting' circuit would be along the lines that it 'primarily'/'largely'/whatever supplied lighting loads.

... and what happens about the 'heavy' stuff - is the circuit supplying, say, the floodlighting of Wembley Stadium not a 'lighting circuit' (since I imagine that it has an OPD >16A) ??

Kind Regards, John

Lighting circuits were originally charged at a cheaper rate for lights only. The name has stuck. Some people cheated of course and used bayonet adapters with their irons, vacuum cleaners, toasters etc.