{"id":156,"date":"2008-05-06T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T11:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=156"},"modified":"2010-02-25T13:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T13:25:51","slug":"domestic-switched-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Switched Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following diagram shows the most simple of lighting circuits, a single lamp on a single switch.  In this instance I&#8217;ve shown it with an incoming and outgoing supply as this can be achieved without breaking the rule of not putting more than four cables into a single junction box.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/light.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/light.png\" alt=\"Junction Box for a Switched Light\" title=\"Domestic Switched Light\" width=\"418\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next diagram shows a very similar circuit to the above except that this time we connect two lamps to a single switch.  Adding the extra lamp and its associated cable means we can no longer accommodate two supplies within the same junction box without breaking the four cables rule.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/light2.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/light2.png\" alt=\"Wiring two lamps to a single junction box\" title=\"Two lamp domestic circuit\" width=\"418\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following diagram shows the most simple of lighting circuits, a single lamp on a single switch. In this instance I&#8217;ve shown it with an incoming and outgoing supply as this can be achieved without breaking the rule of not putting more than four cables into a single junction box. The next diagram shows a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=156\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Domestic Switched Light<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-wiring","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}