Double insulated wall light - to fuse or not to fuse?

Swoopy · Post by **Swoopy** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:35 pm

I've just redecorated a room that has a couple of twin & earth cables protruding from walls that were feeding a pair of switched metal wall lights. As an aside, the house doesn't have an earth circuit in the lighting so these cables terminate in a junction box in the loft with the earths happily connecting to themselves and nothing else

Anyhow, given that there's no earth circuit and i'm wanting to use the cables to provide a switched wall light for my son (it's now in his room) i'm looking at a double insulated light with a switch on it. Now, there are hardly any of those around these days and the ones i could find were suitable only for a bathroom - so what i've done is bought a switched, double insulated plastic light that plugs into a socket, with the intention of removing the flex and wiring it into to the live and neutral cables protruding from the wall. Obviously, there's a 3A plug on the flex at the moment - and the question is, after i remove the plug and flex, should I put a fuse in the circuit or isn't it necessary?

thanks for listening

Rich-Ando · Post by **Rich-Ando** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:15 am

hi Swoopy, welcome to the forum. sorry we didn't reply, there are a few of us but sometimes we seem to have days where we are all at work

lol.

the 3amp fuse was in the plug purley to fuse it down from the sockets at a safe rating. the wiring to the actual light should be able to stand the same current as a normal lighting circuit light and should be more than fine connecting it directly to the lighting circuit with an inline fuse.

Swoopy · Post by **Swoopy** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:49 am

thanks for the reply mate - so i can't get away without a fuse at all, there's just not much room inside this small light fitting that's all.

cheers

Rich-Ando · Post by **Rich-Ando** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:39 am

Swoopy wrote:thanks for the reply mate - so i can't get away without a fuse at all, there's just not much room inside this small light fitting that's all.

cheers

my appologies, i obvioulsy didn't "proof read" my reply. having just read yours i felt confused until i re-read my reply and saw i had typed in "with" but i meant to type "without".
sorry for that. it will be fine on the lighting circuit without an additional inline fuse.

Swoopy · Post by **Swoopy** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:52 am

no worries - thanks for clarifying - i'll crack on with that now then. Many many thanks Rich-Ando.