Moving ceiling light

No, the nominal rating is 100W or the actual load, whichever is greater.

So one with a 500W radiant heater lamp would count as 500W not 100W.

An arrangement which IMO is much safer than using a wall socket: good light on the work from ironing under the lamp and no trip hazard from flex across the floor to a wall socket. Plus the educational benefits available when fingers enter an empty socket in the adapter ;)

Slight lack of earthing though.

Owain

I think 10A lighting circuits are much more common in commercial premises with banks of fluorescents, but usually 1.5mm cable would be used.

Owain

Those don't plug into pendant BC sockets.

NT

There's more than one grade of pendant, they have different max wattage ratings. Is it T1 & T2?

NT

Those old lights often had insulation fallen off on the pendant flex & meta l holders, there was no earthing, cordgrips were often inadequate or absent , wire connections were sometimes lousy press-fit, you were looking into a lightbulb when plugging it into a socket that welcomed fingers. But other t han that, yes, very safe.

NT

possibly - but I haven't seen any with sufficient output yet and they'd need to be dimmable.

Our first house, wired in 1947, had 4 "power points"; one in each bedroom and one in the kitchen. There was a 2A socket off the lighting circuit in the living room.

I've found 250 watt BS and 300 watt ES

Owain

Nearly double that, 500W.

You can get higher power than that. But BR uses 100w each as the rule IIRC.

NT

You can certainly get them bright enough..

Finding a dimmable one will require a bit more googling.

Fitting new LED panels is probably a better idea.

I don't think our hirers would like such a "cold" colour temperature

I'd prefer to look at a trade show.

but it would probably involve a major rewiring job - and would involve scaffolding because of the ceiling height. That might mean closing the hall to hirers for a week. Not a good idea.

Yup, the BS specifies that they are tested with cap temperature of 175 deg C for T1 and 220 deg C for T2 - however it states that is not to be confused with the limiting temperature for operation, and refers to IEC

When at my last place, I rewired the neighbours adjoining semi for them. That had its original 1956 rubber wiring. Very similar provision on the socket front - although it may have had five sockets originally!

My mum's 1968 bungalow had *no* sockets in the third bedroom.

My 1968 council flat was comparatively well equipped with 2 sockets in each bedroom and lounge and *three* in the kitchen plus a cooker point.

Owain

h bedroom and lounge and *three* in the >kitchen plus a cooker point.

The new build my parents bought in 1962 had no sockets in the third bedroom , one single in each of the other bedrooms, two singles in the through loun ge, three singles in the kitchen only because one should have been a cooker point but they opted for gas and a single in the corridor. I think in thos e days you got what you were given and there were no options for adding add itional sockets. Oddly enough there was provision for two wall lights as we ll as a centre light in the lounge, fortunetly they did not go for those "C lam shell" types that were all the rage in the 50s.

Richard