two wall lights off one feed

[tismesass]

Hi, I am in the process of decorating my living room. I wish to have two wall lights above or near my sofa.
I want to power both lights from one feed so that one switch will power both lights together.
Do I put the one feed into the switch then wire the two lights from the switch? Thanks.

 

[breezer]

The way you suggest is the easiest way. However my main concern is where do you intend picking up the supply from?
For lighting circuits the fuse must be at 5 or 6 amps, i suggest you pick up the supply from the existing lighting circuit.

To see how that is wired see

http://www.diydata.com/planning/electric_lights/electric_lights.htm

 

[tismesass]

from a plug socket

 

[amtodd]

Are you using 5A round pin sockets off the lighting circuits, or are you plugging into the ring mains?

If the former, wire it all up like a junction box fed circuit and parallel the sockets.

 

[breezer]

when you say plug socket, do you mean you are going to plug it in or directly wir it in?

The easiest way is obviously to plug it in, but do put a 3 amp fuse in the plug, if you were planning on wiring it in you would need 2.5 mm twin and earth cable to connect the socket to a fused spur then you you could use 1mm twin & earth cable (much easier to plug it in)

 

[tismesass]

yeah I'm going to do the latter, thanks for your help

 

[tismesass]

ok...so I wire into the back of the plug socket, run the wire along a chase and feed it into a fused switch, then I feed the 2 lights from the swith.
So I take it I just double the wires up inside the switch then?

 

[breezer]

First you MUST fit a fused spur with 2.5mm cable to the existing socket, you can then use 1.mm cable from there on. in the switch you connect the blacks together in a termial block and the red from the spur goes to one side of the switch and the two reds go to the other side of the switch. All earth connections are joined only to each other.

obviously uou turn the mains off first.

I did find http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/projectselectrical.htm

where the junction box is (marked as 1) that would be your socket and as i said you MUST use a spur connected by 2.5 mm cable