Looking at the lighting circuit in my new house I have realised that if all light fittings contained bulbs of the maximum allowable wattage and all lights were switched on at same time then it is seriously overloaded.
There is only one lighting circuit for the whole house and on top of this a
500w PIR floodlight and bugular alarm are also on the circuit.My long term solution is split the house into two lighting circuits and move the 500w floodlight to its own MCB or maybe to a FCU on the upstairs sockets ring. The bugular alarm will also be eventually wired to a 3amp unswitched FCU.
But I would like to do a quick fix in the meantime to help me sleep at night.. So I aim to replace one of the upstairs sockets with a 6amp switched FCU and wire the floodlight to this.
But I don't know whether it is worth re-wiring the bugular alarm. The specs state that the power supply rating is at maximim 1A but nothing about the power consumption.
So my question is: What is the power consumption of 1 amp?
Thanks,
Bill