I have a switched fused outlet sitting on top of a kitchen wall cabinet, used to supply an cooker extractor fan. It's fed by 2 cables. I'd like to tap in to this supply to feed some under-cupboard lights. Is this advisable, and what's the best way to do it?
Adding to a switched fused outlet
Oct 27, 2013
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That is what it is for. Just connect your new lights to it via a convenient switch and make sure the fuse is suitably low to protect the new cable to the lights.
Do you *know* it's fed by both the cables? (i.e. it's on a ring circuit) in which case you can take a spur from it.
or could it be on a radial circuit (one incoming and one outgoing cable, in which case you can take a spur from it).
Or might it already be a spur from somewhere else, with a another spur fed from it, in which case, you'd be OK provided the place it is ultimately spurred from is a fused spur.
Mmmm - not sure. One cable is coming from a wall socket, the other from under the floor.
Thanks - sounds straightforward enough!
As Bob has pointed out, as long as you run your extra lights from the fused (load) side of the exiting FCU, you're fine.
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