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<blockquote data-quote="unclened" data-source="post: 505466" data-attributes="member: 33449"><p>Hi, I'm new to the forum but a fairly competent DIY-er and would greatly appreciate some advice on the following:</p><p></p><p>I'm looking to put some GU10 5W LED up/down lights on the exterior walls of my house. I am planning to take power from the my downstairs lighting circuit which is RCD-Protected and use a 20a DP switch as a means to isolate power from within the property to the exterior lights if required. I am looking to wire the lights in paralell, identical to how I have wired my LED downlights, but there is a perpendicular wall which I am also planning to attach external wall lights to and I'm wondering if I can run two cables from the load terminations at the DP switch to each bank of lights (option A) or is option b better/safer and run a longer cable internally from the last light on the first wall to the first light on the second wall, so that all 6 lights are wired in parallel rather than 2 sets of 3 in parallel?</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance!</p><p></p><p><img src="https://talk.electricianforum.co.uk/uploads/imageproxy/Lighting.jpg.a0110295d8d9e2955b2abfec4db64683.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="unclened, post: 505466, member: 33449"] Hi, I'm new to the forum but a fairly competent DIY-er and would greatly appreciate some advice on the following: I'm looking to put some GU10 5W LED up/down lights on the exterior walls of my house. I am planning to take power from the my downstairs lighting circuit which is RCD-Protected and use a 20a DP switch as a means to isolate power from within the property to the exterior lights if required. I am looking to wire the lights in paralell, identical to how I have wired my LED downlights, but there is a perpendicular wall which I am also planning to attach external wall lights to and I'm wondering if I can run two cables from the load terminations at the DP switch to each bank of lights (option A) or is option b better/safer and run a longer cable internally from the last light on the first wall to the first light on the second wall, so that all 6 lights are wired in parallel rather than 2 sets of 3 in parallel? Thanks in advance! [IMG]https://talk.electricianforum.co.uk/uploads/imageproxy/Lighting.jpg.a0110295d8d9e2955b2abfec4db64683.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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