Progress is slow on my garage to man cave conversion, taken me 6 months to paint the walls, install sockets and insulation. I picked up 2 6ft LAP LED Battens from Screwfix for lighting, opened them up last night and have some questions hopefully the hive mind can help with because the internet could not or I didnt understand it…
The units don’t require an earth because they are double insulated (the internet says), I believe I need to run an earth as the fused spur box is metal, the light switch I have picked up is plastic so doesn’t have an earth terminal. I was going to use terminal blocks to connect the earths in and out of the light switch but then can I terminate the earth in a terminal block closer to the light? or if I cant, where can I terminate it?
The other question is specific to these LED Battens, they dont have a rear centre entrance, instead you can enter from either side using built in pinch style clips/terminals. I am looking to run my lights on a radial with one socket so planned to run the cables onto the next light out of the first, do I need the cables in at one end and then out of the other, or can I get away with putting both sets of cables in the pinch style clips/terminals?