Basics: Adding a Light to An Existing Circuit
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- Basics - Adding a light to an existing lighting circuit.
How to Add a light fitting to an existing TPS circuit. Demonstrated using a PDL 629 batten holder.
Link to Part 1: • Basics: Wiring a Light...
Cheers for watching!
Legal or not people will still do this work. So, knowledge empowers someone to do this safely - rather than fumble around and do it unsafely. Congrats mate.
Finally I found someone who Demonstrated what I wanted in an easy manner.
Man - you're a life saver, Dave! Really... Cheers mate for all your time you do to educate us on how things are done. Your Apprentice Kitten must be so happy having you. :)
loved when the apprentice came to give you a hand, lol. Excellent video, easy to understand it, thank you for putting it together for all of us.
Thanks, Dave. I am thinking about creating my own farmhouse chandelier and I needed explanation on how to wire up multiple lights. Your video was easy for me to understand. Great job on your video.
Very well explained Dave thank you. Your attention to detail is awesome 👏
Thanks for the help struggled for about an hour until I come across your video sorted it in 10 minutes brilliant
Really simple and well explained, exactly what I needed thank you!
If only I found your channel during my Electrical course, thanks for the gold mine of info mate.
are you doing an apprenticeship now?
So awesome! Thank you! So easy to understand and straight to the point!
Great video. The best I've seen by far! Thank you
Finally a good practical explanation of how to do it loud and cleare👌👌👍👍👏👏
Well explained Dave. Just what I was looking for.
Dave bro, you are golden and need to be protected at all costs!
Cheers mate, good vid, easy to follow. Need to do this in my shed.
Nicely illustrated, thank you.
My garage needs one more light for this one corner. This video will come in handy for sure :)
Is there a maximum number of lights you can daisy chain together like this? I’m looking to combine 5+ lights
Brilliant explained beautifully 👍👍thank you👌👌👌
Thankyou very much, well done.
Very helpful. I would really like to see a video of yours just like this but with a motion detector or pir in the circuit
Really helpful video thanks.
Excellent!!!
really amazing
Smashed out of the window. Thanks.
Legend mate
Thank you 😊
Easy peasey! 👍
Great Video Dave...Could you do a Video that shows the difference between ..Loop at Light...
Loop at Switch...and Active Switched..??
Cheers !!
How do you wire a new led down lights with built in ballasts?
I have one strap from the first of two ceiling light batten fittings to the single gang switch that was linked to both.
A single black cable entering the switch via the same conduit as the strap containing a red and black cable.
The single gang switch once had a dimmer but I removed it.
I am uncertain of that second black cable’s purpose.
At the moment turning on the switch causes a short so something is askew.
The ceiling lights tap into a hot wire feeding all eleven battens looping or daisy chaining along the circuit.
Good one daveo
Hi, great videos are you able to show how to add a PIR sensor to an already line between switch and light, thanks
Thanks for sharing these vids m9, I don't see one for making an outlet circuit? is it the same as a light circuit/multiple light circuit? I actually found your vids when I was looking for a copy of AS/NZS 3000-2018 as I am planning to run the cables in my new home for the sparky to come and wire it up, and I just wanted to read the standards for doing so... have you got a more cabling specific vid that talks about how and where to use conduit and asociated parts and how cabling should interact with wall framing and floor joists?
Thank you
This is the easiest to follow and understand video yet of the 3 other videos I very recently came across. The only thing is that I am not sure of is the ground situation. I am not daisy chaining lights but rather cameras with spotlights. I want to make sure I ground properly. I will probably be running two sets of wires (romex) from the light switch to the two separate camera/light fixtures.
I probably am overthinking this but where the ground is concerned should I just run each camera/light's ground wire to the switch and tie it off on the ground connector as I would be doing if I only had one camera/light?
What is loop used for? Should I not worry about it? Thanks.
Hi Bro, any chance of video showing adding extra electrical socket to existing ring.
awesome thx
Great video, what would you do if your existing circuit doesn't have an earth wire?
Hi Dave, love watch your videos. I had a question, if i am installing base plug sockets for Downlights can I use the existing cables or do I need to run new ones ?
Could i put a switch between the new light and old light? (For a new loft light, from the garage lights underneath)
Awesome, if you have a chance, can you make a video on how to do the wiring for air conditioning, thank you
Can you wire a permanent live bulb off an existing light fitting or is nothing live in the existing light fitting until the switch is flicked?
Can I put a plug in in the end of my two lights??
Cheers dave
Thanks for the helpful video. Also you kind of sound like Terry from the Disney movie "Soul".
What happens if you leave the red out? I want to install a motion sensor ceiling light thats not connected to the on/off switch thx
Amazing video (and videos!), thank you so much! This is extremely helpful for my pre-app work (especially when the tutors aren't anywhere near as helpful as this) and through into my upcoming apprenticeship. I'm assuming in this demonstration, these two lights are wired in parallel? Would you be up for making a demonstration video for wiring up these two lights in series with TPS to see the difference for educational purposes (I appreciate series isn't usually the done thing for most light circuits)?
Hey Dave what’s the easiest way to attach flush boxes to metal studs ?
Thanks
Wow thank you. Didn't know it was that easy.
Any tips on how this is different when doing led downlight? I've noticed there is no ground for led downlights.
.,good tutorial boss..
.,nabulls eye na kita..
Great video mate. Any chance you can do a fan with light install?
Dave, what is the advantage and disadvantage from doing wiring from the socket vs all the way from switch
generally easier to wire from the socket as its likely accessible, switch is in the wall so youd have to drop the cable down/up, socket is in ceiling. you just do whatever is easier.
This is great but im still trying to get my head round it. Is this circuit in series or parrallel? Or does it not matter? Im about to wire up 2 led lights and thought if i did it this way then the 2 lights would end up "dimmer" cos the circuit is in series. Can anyone clarify?
Parallel so it can carry the same volts
Good stuff!
Q.How wire switch / bulb / female outlet socket in series?
Thanks manzo
If I wanted to run say a 2 gang switch for 2 separate light circuits. Does each circuit need to be run from the switch box or can you just loop the source into the next circuit?
I need this too
Electrifying.......💡...........💡..........💡
Why bayonet lights dont require to use different terminals for the wires ?
Does the fixture type matter that you're adding? Like if you've got a fluorescent up can you add an Led later or can those not be on the same circuit?
That's fine. Although keep an eye out if there are sensors or dimmers on the same circuit as these are only compatible with one type of load..(ie incandescent, LED, fluorescent)
What if the first light 💡 is connected to a PIR motion sensor and you want to add another light so they can both use the exact same PIR sensor??
A motion sensor just takes the place of a switch. If you want a switch also, just wire a switch before the motion sensor. You’d have power source, switch, motion sensor, light, light.
Hi dave what part of NZ are you living in?
Sparky Dave could you do a program on how to install an oven with cooktop please
Is the concept the same for shop lights
So technically, i could just swap that switch for a plug end? And plug in into an outlet? I could theoretically use an extension cord and cut it up and loop a few lights together this way?
No, you will want to get the proper gauged Romex that's rated for the type of amperage your power on that circuit is running on. To small of a wire gauge can cause potential issues/hazards.
Do you know how many lights you can add to an existing one is there a limit?
As many as u want but u dont have to exceed the power consumtion of the circuit cause the circuit breaker will jump from the fuse box
The more lights u add in one circuit the more power consumtion increase and the more amps will flow in the circuit which makes the resistance to increase the higher resistance is more amps will flow one 1mm cable or 1.5 mm is enough to take all amps with no resistancewhich can take up to 16 amp but the circuit breaker is also very important in one circuit for safety reasons
Its important not overloading the circuit
If u add more watti the amps increase and the reaistance start to increase
Dave, if you only need 3 holes why is there a 4th one in the baton? why make them with 4?
Red. Black. Earth and earth
@@danielarnold792 What is loop used for? Should I not worry about it? Thanks.
Assume you do this with the power off to the house/lighting circuit?
It would be silly if you didn't lol
Question if one light blows isn't the other one gonna go out as well cos its wired in series?
These are wired in parallel. Imagine a black line and red line, each lamp (and any additional lamp) sits between the two lines. Hope that helps. (In the video the black and red cables were never cut - just extended).
@@sparkydave I see how it works now cheers. Thanks for taking the time out to reply keep up the good work.
Does this series mean the lights individually will not get as much power?
No! the individual light would still get same power
How many lights can you actually add to a circuit
There are a few factors to consider, including cable size, the total power consumption and overall distance from the switchboard.
Generally, in a residential setting, it depends on the combined power consumption (watts) of the entire circuit running off the same fuse/circuit breaker at the switchboard. Ideally the combined wattage should be less than 1kW on the same lighting circuit (4.35A) for residential. Calculated P=VI. Very easily done with LED lighting these days - you will over illuminate a room, if not the entire house, before you overload the circuit. Should the circuit become overloaded, the fuse/mcb will operate protecting the cable from excessive temperatures.
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we have much hassle with the stripping you know, Dave. Showing us your chosen tools and techniques for stripping would be good. (two years ago. wonder if you'll see this0
How many lights can i add on this method?australian standard.thanks
Heaps
So you’re telling me I paid 110 AUD to have someone come to the house and do this??..
You had to you have no experience
Absolutely. People pay me $350 to caulk stuff on their roof because they don’t have a ladder or want to go up one. Takes 5 - 10 mins. You’re paying for the service.
INVOICE: $1,000. Flipping a switch: $1. Knowing which switch to flip: $999. 😉
I just read someone paid 400$ to have a man come and move a light switch and outlet to the wall right behind the switch. I wonder how he screwed around doing this 10 min job to make it take alot longer so he could charge that amount.
Pretty sure it's illegal to do this yourself in Australia. The industry protects itself and extorts the consumer through legislation.
This is a paralel circuit
Great vid....so if I wanted to add a 3rd light to that circuit I would connect into the 2nd socket?...and a 4th light, connect into the 3rd and so on?....and if so, how many additional lights can you go...is there a recommended limit?