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Heated/LED light mirror conection

  • 24-11-2020 09:34PM
    #1
    Mickey_D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭


    Hi All

    Help needed on home DIY. All advice is welcome and appreciated.

    I have bought a heated/LED light mirror and need to connect it to the mains.
    It says IP44 rated and I can just see two wires I need to connect to the mains. One brown and the other blue I believe.

    Would it be possible to connect it to the switch that powers that water pump in the hot press? Or would I need to run a mains cable from somewhere else through the loft to the hot press?

    Appreciate all your advice.
    Mike


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  • #2
    meercat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭meercat


    Mickey_D wrote: »
    Hi All

    Help needed on home DIY. All advice is welcome and appreciated.

    I have bought a heated/LED light mirror and need to connect it to the mains.
    It says IP44 rated and I can just see two wires I need to connect to the mains. One brown and the other blue I believe.

    Would it be possible to connect it to the switch that powers that water pump in the hot press? Or would I need to run a mains cable from somewhere else through the loft to the hot press?

    Appreciate all your advice.
    Mike

    It needs dedicated rcd protection. One way of achieving this is to wire it back to the distribution board. It’s not permitted to put switches into a hot press.
    Only a rec is allowed do electrical work in bathrooms and distribution board


  • #3
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,717 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    meercat wrote: »
    It needs dedicated rcd protection. One way of achieving this is to wire it back to the distribution board. It’s not permitted to put switches into a hot press.
    Only a rec is allowed do electrical work in bathrooms and distribution board

    I don’t do any domestic wiring but as far as I recall it is permitted to install an RCD elsewhere for bathroom lights.


  • #4
    meercat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭meercat


    2011 wrote: »
    I don’t do any domestic wiring but as far as I recall it is permitted to install an RCD elsewhere for bathroom lights.

    Absolutely. That’s why I said one way of achieving this.
    There’s a spur unit that has a built in rcd but it’s ugly and cannot be mounted in a hot press or cupboard.
    If you mount a rcd in an enclosure then height restrictions apply and can’t be mounted at ceiling heights and it cannot be mounted in an attic space.

    Although the fitting in this instance doesn’t require an earth,the cables do and on most older lighting circuits there’s not always an earth upstairs.

    The best way to ensure the integrity of the circuit is a new cable back to distribution board and dedicated rcd (rcbo) protection.


  • #5
    Mickey_D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭Mickey_D


    Thanks for all the advice. Looks like I’ll just have to get an electrician in so.

    I’ve installed the mirror today and ran the power cable into the hot press as there wasn’t anywhere else it could go. Hopefully it’ll be an easy for the sparks that I find.

    Attached is the switch I was hoping I’d be able to hook it up to

    Thx
    Mike


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