ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION CONDITION REPORT question

I still only have switched live and earth available.>

I have no problem remembering to turn off the light but I am not encumbered with full hands and a brain stressing about the upcoming meal.>

Or asbestos contamination of blackboard chalk.

Andrew snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com wrote

I much prefer a proper movement sensor system like the Philips Hue system. Not cheap but brilliant in use, you never need to do anything, just walk around where you want to go and have the lights come on and off when required completely automatically and the you can put the sensors anywhere with no wires involved at all and the batterys quite literally last for years

In my case in the entire house and outside

Colour me confused. If the neon is to indicate that a cupboard light was on then why not connect an indicator across the cupboard light, or fit a PIR to the light to remove the problem ... or replace the bulb with one that has an integral PIR? Dumping a couple of mA into the CPC isn't a wonderful idea.

Maybe not but it avoids replacing a cable buried in plaster. My electrician had used twin+E (suitably colour coded) to connect to the switch.

Aha. An interesting conundrum. Easy enough to rig the neon to illuminate when the device is OFF... ... I'd be inclined to reposition the other end of the wire so that the 'earth' wire was in fact connected to neutral...especially if the switch were plastic with no earth point...

How about one of those spy glasses for front doors, so, if one cared about a trivial quantity of energy use, one could look through it to see whether the cupboard light was on?

Have a look here:

The existing light fitting is a 4ft. fluorescent. I have several

Problem with that approach is that quite a bit of the time the bulb is not the best place for the pir

The Philips Hue pirs are a much better approach because you put the pir anywhere it works best with no wires at all and the battery lasts for years

Not cheap tho, but that doesn't really matter given that they last forever

Yes a typo, Adam, or the denizen who tipped him off, knew who I meant, and I'm grateful for the responses.