Brick lights in new wall i,m..?
Question:building a new wall and i want to put 6 brick lights in while i am doing this. i have condiut/ducting running to all the b/lights put in by an electrician but he has never been asked to install a b/light and has asked me to buy 1 so he can see what is needed before he finishes running in the wiring (don,t know what that means) my fault for changing mind on what lighting to have.
spoke to him earlier to ask what is he looking for and he said is it a normal light fitting with lampholder (bulkhead is the term he used) or are they prewired with cable coming out . and then if so having 6 on a switch coming on together may not work, i asked why and this is what i think he said. something about switch cable and i,m common.
the reason i havn,t just gone and bought 1 for him to look at is that i am on a tight budget and when i buy b/lights i am getting a deal for buying a dozen.(rest for my brother) half the normal price.
anyone with info please on b/light,s
Answers:
Yes, conduit needs to be done first, and yes, you should have the lights before the electrician puts in the conduit. Some lights are designed to be attached to a junction box, while others serve as their own junction box and the conduit is attached directly to the fixture. Additionally, there are line voltage (normal 120v light bulb) fixtures; low voltage (halogen or flourescent) fixtures with built-in transformers; and low voltage with a remote transfomer (all lights run off a single, remotely located transformer - similar to landscaping lights).
I'm not sure why your electrician thinks 6 lights would be a problem. If it's line-voltage fixtures, they're typically rated at 65w max, for a total load of about 3amps. And the low-voltage fixtures with the built-in transformers are typically 25w or less, which would give you a total circuit load of 1.25A. A normal light circuit is 10A, so unless you're tying into a circuit that's already heavily loaded, there shouldn't be a problem.
You need to build the wall with the six brick lights when the wall is finished bring in the electrician to finish the wiring job. if you have six brick lights that are on 110 volts it's not a problem.
You can't finalize the hook-up until the wall is built if you have the main conduit run to the location where it is needed and the power requirements are fulfilled that's fine and that's what it sounds like, you can't finalize the hook up of lights that are not set in the wall!
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