Installing A Lighting Kit

Installing a Lighting Kit in a Dolls House

1. Decide where you wish to site the light fittings – Ceiling, Back Wall or Side Wall?
2. All the lights, normally have a length of cable and a plug attached to the light fitting. To fit the light you will also find that they, normally, have a self-adhesive pad which will stick to the wall or ceiling to attach the fitting.
3. With a pair of sharp-nose pliers pull the pins out of the plug and you will then be able to pull the cable back through the plug. When you have attached your fitting you can put the plug back together, push the cable back through the plug and separating the two wires, push them back into the contact holes with the two pins from the plug.
4. Wall Lights on the Back Wall are simplest, when the Dolls House is finished, just mark the positions and drill holes. The holes need only be 1.5mm. (We can supply a small hand drill and the requisite drill bit.)
5. Side walls, external – having decided where to site the fitting, cut a grove in the wall to the back wall and drill through there for the wiring to go through, as above. The cable will lie in the slot and, assuming that you are papering the wall you then need to cut a slot in the paper to allow it to accept the light fitting on top. Slide the paper into place and place the light fitting. (It is usually a good idea to prop the fitting in situ for a while to let the paper dry without distorting.)
6. Side walls, internal (an alternative for external walls as well if these are to be papered externally.) For this you can drill through the wall and cut the slot to the back wall on the other side of the wall, site the cable in the slot and, again drill through the back wall. Paper over the slot when ready. Meanwhile you can paint or paper the wall that will hold the light fitting and when dry, fit your light.
7. Ceiling Lights – Before putting the house together, if possible, the flooring on the first floor will cover the wiring for lights on the ground floor, flooring on the second floor will cover wiring for lights on the first floor, etc., and lights in roof space will be cabled on the outside of the roof and covered with roofing.
8. Measure and mark the site for the light fitting, then drill through from the floor above. On that floor, cut a slot approximately 1.5mm deep to the back of the floor and drill through the back wall.
9. Prepare your ceiling, paint or whatever, fit the light, lay the wire in the slot to the back wall. Then lay your flooring covering the wire and put the floor into the House, pushing the wire through the hole in the back wall. Refit the plug.
10. If wall sockets are to be fitted decide where they are to go and follow the recommendations above, similarly with lit fires, depending where they are to be sited.
11. If the cable attached to the light fittings will not allow all to be plugged in to a lighting strip, then use extension cables, which can also be used as sockets for individual rooms.
12. For Copper tape, it is simplest to solder the wires onto the tape but that system is really best used when there is little chance of any extension ever being required for the lighting system, where it will be permanent. The copper needs to have two pins inserted for contact at some point where there are two tapes close to each other so that they can complete the circuit. Be careful not to cross over tapes unless well insulated. Transformers can then be attached to the tapes.
13. Plug and socket system is easier and allows for additional lights or fires etc.
14. The whole system operates off a 12 volt transformer and these are available with various numbers of ‘bulbs’ that can be run from each transformer, from 6 bulbs up to 50.
15. Connect the two contacts from the socket strip, or for copper tape the cable from the copper pin points, to the transformer, underneath flat washers and tighten down the screws. Plug in the transformer.
16. If the LED light on the socket strip comes on, you have blown the fuse and possibly have a short somewhere in the house, For copper strip, if the lights do not work, you have to check each bulb and each contact with the tape, including the plug to the transformer.

You have completed the wiring of your dolls house.

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