Wiring LED Strip Driver into 5amp Lighting Circuit

[winston1]

as lighting circuits are already fused at 6 amps. All you need is a switch and flex outlet or else a 2 amp plug and socket.

While a 2 amp socket will carry 12 amps the design of a 2 amp fixture on a circuit fused at 6 amps is not a good design

12 amps is the current that can flow through a 6 amp MCB for quite a long time before the MCB's thermal trip will operate

Maybe so, but 2 amp sockets were always wired on to lighting circuits. They were deemed to require half an amp. There were never any 2 amp circuits, though I am aware that 2A MCBs are available.

If the OP is worried he could use a 5 amp socket, but in theory as 5amp sockets are deemed to require full load he could not put it on an existing lighting circuit with other lights.

 

[DaftPunk]

What????? You can't put a 5A socket on a lighting circuit? What on earth are you talking about?

 

[winston1]

What????? You can't put a 5A socket on a lighting circuit? What on earth are you talking about?

You can, but as a 5 amp socket is deemed to require full load there is only 1 amp left for lights (assuming a 6amp circuit ) so rather limiting.

 

[EFLImpudence]

in theory as 5amp sockets are deemed to require full load

Please explain.

 

[winston1]

in theory as 5amp sockets are deemed to require full load

Please explain.

This was written in the regs many years ago. Thus one 5A socket on a 5A circuit, three 5A or one 15A socket on a 15A circuit, and up to ten 2A sockets on a 5A circuit.

 

[RF Lighting]

More rubbish from the resident bulls hitter

 

[EFLImpudence]

10 x 2 = 5 ???

Is that why we can only fit two and a half 13A sockets on a ring?

 

[winston1]

More rubbish from the resident bulls hitter

Why do you have to be so rude and insulting? I suggest you do some research into BS546. The IEE regs 10th edition will be a good place to start.
From Wikipedia:


The 15 ampere(A) sockets were generally given a dedicated 15 A circuit. Multiple 5 A sockets might be on a 15 A circuit, or on a dedicated 5 A circuit. Lighting circuits fused at 5 A were generally used to feed the 2 A sockets.

 

[winston1]

10 x 2 = 5 ???

Is that why we can only fit two and a half 13A sockets on a ring?

IDIOT.

A 2A socket is deemed to supply 0.5 A ( as I said in my post). 10 x 0.5 = 5.

 

[RF Lighting]

More rubbish from the resident bulls hitter

Why do you have to be so rude and insulting? I suggest you do some research into BS546. The IEE regs 10th edition will be a good place to start.
From Wikipedia:


The 15 ampere(A) sockets were generally given a dedicated 15 A circuit. Multiple 5 A sockets might be on a 15 A circuit, or on a dedicated 5 A circuit. Lighting circuits fused at 5 A were generally used to feed the 2 A sockets.

Why would I want to read the 10th edition? We use the 17th edition these days. Are you still installing fused neutrals too?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Why do you have to be so rude and insulting?

IDIOT.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

From Wikipedia:


Multiple 5 A sockets might be on ... a dedicated 5 A circuit.

But you said, and then later tried to use some old edition of the Wiring Regulations and a Wikipedia article to prove, that a 5A socket has an assumed draw of 5A.

So how could you have multiple ones on a 5A circuit - surely you could only have 1?

I'm confused - please clarify.

 

[winston1]

[quote="ban-all-sheds"

So how could you have multiple ones on a 5A circuit - surely you could only have 1?

I'm confused - please clarify.[/quote]

That article was badly written. Multiple on a 15A circuit. One on a 5A circuit.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

That article was badly written.

So why cite it as some sort of proof of your barmy theory?

 

[JohnW2]

Does everyone reading the above fascinating material realise that the 10th edition of the Wiring Regs was published in 1934?

Kind Regards, John