lampost type light

[paul b b]

hello gents,

customer wants a lampost type light in her garden with pir and some twinkly lights in her tree!

how is it best to feed this? from switch to outside box to swa to box to pir etc?

advice welcome

thanks

 

[Apache]

See what Binky did last week

http://www.talk.electricianforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7932

 

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hello gents,customer wants a lamppost type light in her garden with pier and some twinkly lights in her tree!

how is it best to feed this? from switch to outside box to swa to box to pier etc?

advice welcome

thanks

If feasible personally I would try to get it onto its own circuit back to the CU.

So any possible future problems on the Outside wiring can be easily disconnected / isolated without killing off part of the house wiring!.

Also can the PIR be fitted to the house rather than the lamppost?

 

[jalaner06]

hello gents,customer wants a lampost type light

When you say "lampost type light", do you mean a lampost but smaller in size?, most lamposts have a service hatch at the bottom as im sure you have seen and there are all different shapes and sizes, if the lampost your fitting has a service hatch, I would do as the previous comment suggests and wire the external lighting on its on dedicated circuit, wire to an internal switch fed from the cu, gland from the internal switch in SWA armour cable to the lampost, terminate the swa inside the lamppost to a 1361 fuse enclosure of the appropriate rating, ensure this fuse enclosure fits inside the lampost before ordering as often finding something of the correct dimensions for lamposts is a pain in the arse, from there wire to the pir and then to the light.