I would like to replace my current outside light with one or more powerful ones. I want to power them from a fused outlet from the downstairs sockets ring main and currently the outside light is on the downstairs lights circuit. However I would like to use the current light switch to switch them.
My concern is that someone in the future (including myself on a dosey day) will switch off the lights circuit at the CU and be surprised when they find a live feed to the light switch in the kitchen. The light switch is a double switch that switches the outside light and the kitchen light.
One solution I have come up with is to use, what I would call, a power relay that is powered by the lighting circuit, but switches the fused outlet from the sockets ring main.
My questions are two fold:
Is it OK to have a light switch in the kitchen that is fed from both the lights circuit and sockets circuit and if not, what exactly am I after in terms of 'a power relay' ?
Any help gratefully received
Pete Henley