How best to change this light fitting

Mads · Jun 23, 2021

Can I get some suggestions on how best to change this light fitting

for 2 of these?

The original light is controlled by this switch and

Also controls this light

I would like the new lights to be independent of the other light. This will be right next to the door, which doesn’t have a window and gets quite dark.

wildebus · Jun 23, 2021

If you want to have both lights independantly controlled you have two options

1) run another +ve line to one of the lights from the switch and swap that single switch to a double one (changing the switch will be dead easy. running another +ve cable from the switch to a light could be easy but I suspect could be a much bigger problem and possibly not really possible)

2) Fit a pair of lights which have an on/off switch as part of the fitting. use the existing switch as a Master On/Off or just bypass the switch entirely

How to change? just fit the new fittings making sure you connect the +ve and -ve correctly. Remove the fuse to the lights while you are doing the work.

Mads · Jun 24, 2021

The new lights each have independent switches

Greggbear67 · Jun 24, 2021

Problem will be when you turn on the "master" switch, although the new lights have their own switches, the other original light will come on. Other option is to put the 2 new ones in & also replace the other original light for one with its own switch too....

st3v3 · Jun 24, 2021

You can get a remote control module that might help. The limitation is you can probably only use one as they use the same frequency. So, that would mean the switch controls one light. The limitation means that light has to be on for you to then also turn on the other one. Hope that makes sense.

If you can work with that it's really easy to wire.

This is the remote