How to make a safe lighting in the basement ?

What is the difference from the cellars of the basement?

For you to understand the difference between the two rooms, consider what their main difference.Basement is usually located below the level of private home land.This construction made to store garden equipment and tools.If the basement is located in the garage, where a small workshop or even a relaxation room can be equipped (some people manage to make even a basement billiard room of the cottage).As for the cellar, its main purpose - storing closures, vegetables and fruits.Like the basement, cellar should be located below ground level, but not necessarily, this structure must be right under the dwelling house.Sometimes cellar construct in the territory of the suburban area not far from the property.

As for lighting, in both cases, the SAE rules presented one major requirement - the wiring must be protected from moisture and mechanical damage.Next, we consider in detail how to make the light in the basement or cellar with their hands.

Choose safety components

Before spending the lighting in the basement of the construction, you need the right approach to the choice of lighting fixtures, wires and switches.The fact that all the components must not only be protected from moisture, but also from mechanical damage, corrosion, and even negative effect of aggressive materials (for example, fertilizers or insect poison).

Considering this point, to hold their own lighting in the basement, you need to use the following components ::

1. cable in double insulation, preferably non-combustible.In this case, the best guide is VVGng cable, 1.5 mm2 (in the event that you just gathered to hold light in the cellar).
2. lamp with waterproof canopy, as shown in the photo below (IP degree of protection not less than 44).
3. Depression transformer 220/36 and 220/12 volt better.Lighting should be safe, especially if damp basement.If the room is completely dry, you can connect the light of 220 Volt.

Besides lighting the line to protect the circuit breaker to 10A and 10 mA RCD (if the humidity in the basement).Safety automation is recommended to make a junction box in the house.

perform wiring

And, finally, we come to the main issue of the article - how to make the lighting in the basement of an apartment house with his own hands.To start select a few important things, and then look at a step by step installation instructions.

1. If the ceiling is low, the light is best placed on the wall so it does not interfereand the threat of damage to the ceiling has been reduced to a minimum.
2. sure to protect the cable special plastic boxes or metal pipe with a wall thickness of not less than 2 mm.For information on how to carry out the wiring in pipes, we talked in the corresponding article.
3. If cellar represented by a separate structure, be sure to make the street entrance lighting to night time you can safely go down for food or tools.
4. If the basement of an apartment house or garage crude, better switch to bring up, placing it at the entrance to the building.
5. Line lighting is recommended to display the open way, at a height from the floor about 2 meters, to minimize the possibility of mechanical damage.
6. power step-down transformer should not be less than 30% higher than the power of all the fixtures that will connect to it.

If you comply with these requirements and recommendations, ready lighting system in the basement will be safe and durable.Perform light is actually not difficult, even inexperienced electrician.All you need to do - to stretch from the opening panel in a separate line of the house or cottage, a protected machine, and if necessary, the RCD.Connecting the fixtures is not difficult, in fact, as well as installation of a light switch.Ready-made lighting system should look like in the video below.

That's all that I wanted to tell you about how to make the lighting in the basement of an apartment house or garage.As you can see, nothing complicated in electrical work, the main thing to take into account all the requirements and recommendations provided!

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