Hex Garage Lights 😍

Steviejay01

Steviejay01

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Ordered these a month back from AliExpress, 90 quid absolutely thrilled with them, they are mega bright too, so now my beautiful Coupe is chilling in its own little showroom on a carpet being lit up like a Christmas tree 😂

If anyone is thinking of doing the same all I'll say is work from the middle out, and upgrade your lighting breaker in the fuse box because for some reason when you switch these on they pull a lot of power initially then run on hardly anything.
Well worth the wait and the effort 👌👌👌

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Actually £69 my bad, plus postage obviously.
This setup fits nicely in a standard garage if anyone is interested 👍👍
 

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Steviejay01 said:
and upgrade your lighting breaker in the fuse box
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You should ONLY do that if you know you have a cable large enough. Lighting circuits are 6 amp in the UK (standard) with a minimum of 1.0mm2 cable wired to them. If you change the breaker to anything larger than 10 amp with a 1mm2 cable you risk overheating the cable and causing a fire.

If your lighting circuit wiring is 1.5mm2 (some are some are not) then you can increase the breaker to 16amp.

All are subject to how the wiring is routed, as different 'containment' and lengths of cable runs have different maximum amperages for a given cable size.

Basically, unless you know exactly what you are doing DO NOT increase breaker sizes just because you want to, or need to for the lighting connected to them.

The first and most important lesson I was taught with electrics was "the breaker (or fuse) is only there to protect the cable".
 
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Steviejay01 said:
because for some reason when you switch these on they pull a lot of power initially then run on hardly anything.
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LEDs are not high load start (or shouldn't be).

Sorry if I sound like an old fart but some of the wording in the OP's initial post worries me.

I like the lights, though. Very "detailer-ish".
 
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Pondy said:
You should ONLY do that if you know you have a cable large enough. Lighting circuits are 6 amp in the UK (standard) with a minimum of 1.0mm2 cable wired to them. If you change the breaker to anything larger than 10 amp with a 1mm2 cable you risk overheating the cable and causing a fire.

If your lighting circuit wiring is 1.5mm2 (some are some are not) then you can increase the breaker to 16amp.

All are subject to how the wiring is routed, as different 'containment' and lengths of cable runs have different maximum amperages for a given cable size.

Basically, unless you know exactly what you are doing DO NOT increase breaker sizes just because you want to, or need to for the lighting connected to them.

The first and most important lesson I was taught with electrics was "the breaker (or fuse) is only there to protect the cable".
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I left that part to my electrician and he didn't mention any of that so I can only presume he knows what he's doing, I simply fitted them to the ceiling he installed the cable and breaker 👍
 
Pondy said:
LEDs are not high load start (or shouldn't be).

Sorry if I sound like an old fart but some of the wording in the OP's initial post worries me.

I like the lights, though. Very "detailer-ish".
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Not quite sure what you mean?

I'm no expert but I think you may be unaware of this led issue with the breaker in start up I believe it's called inrush current if you have a large pattern like this.
It's just the initial power.

I've attached a screen shot, my electrician did the wiring not me I don't like touching electrics.
I didn't know but it's common on these lights, my neighbour has them fitted and had the same thing.
The electrician is aware of it too, you can get an inrush limiter to stop it happening I've attached a screen shot that might be useful if you want to read it.
 

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markplant said:
What rating was the MCB before you uprated it, and what is the running load if you know , does look good
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Electrician swapped out these said it's safe.

It's just the initial pull of the led lights I put the info on the other post above for @Pondy
I'm no electrician so I paid someone to do it professionally.

Pondy said LEDs shouldn't be high load start and I thought the same but it seems it is actually thing.
I'm no expert but Google is our friend
 

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