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Can you run a socket off a light switch?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lee70" data-source="post: 496966" data-attributes="member: 32765"><p>Hi I am looking for some help. Before the lock down I was doing some work at home in my bathroom and the wife asked for some extra low level LED lighting. Unfortunately we were a bit far on and the nearest power was the socket in the next room. The electrician who was on the job asked me to run the cables and he would come back make the final connection and test it for me. Unfortunately since lock down I think he’s turned his phone off and I can’t get hold of him. The socket we are taking the power from is on a circuit wired into the fuse board in the next room. The cable from the socket goes to a connection box from there I have split one cable off for an electric mirror that’s low voltage, which is all ok. I have also run another cable from the connector to a light switch ( a sensor one so you don’t have to touch it) from the switch it goes to a fused socket that the leds plug into. The ide is to use the switch to turn the lights on and off while the socket is hidden behind an access panel, it’s wiring the switch I’m not sure about, how to wire it up and if I need any other protection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lee70, post: 496966, member: 32765"] Hi I am looking for some help. Before the lock down I was doing some work at home in my bathroom and the wife asked for some extra low level LED lighting. Unfortunately we were a bit far on and the nearest power was the socket in the next room. The electrician who was on the job asked me to run the cables and he would come back make the final connection and test it for me. Unfortunately since lock down I think he’s turned his phone off and I can’t get hold of him. The socket we are taking the power from is on a circuit wired into the fuse board in the next room. The cable from the socket goes to a connection box from there I have split one cable off for an electric mirror that’s low voltage, which is all ok. I have also run another cable from the connector to a light switch ( a sensor one so you don’t have to touch it) from the switch it goes to a fused socket that the leds plug into. The ide is to use the switch to turn the lights on and off while the socket is hidden behind an access panel, it’s wiring the switch I’m not sure about, how to wire it up and if I need any other protection. [/QUOTE]
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