Ceiling light
A light fixture on the ceiling. The circle marks where it goes; letters and numbers beside it can give the fixture type and circuit.
Easily confused with
How to read it
The Army's print-reading manual divides lighting outlets into ceiling and wall types. NECA 100 draws light fixtures with modifiers for how they are mounted: surface mounted, recessed or wall mounted.
Also searched as: ceiling fixture, light fixture symbol.
This explains what a symbol represents on a drawing. Conventions vary between firms and standards, and a drawing's own legend takes precedence.
Look-alikes
A recessed light sits flush in the ceiling and has its own symbol or an R. A circle with SD is a smoke detector.
Read next
- Next in Blueprint symbolsRecessed lightA light set into the ceiling so it sits flush with the surface.
- The same shape in African flagsFlag of EthiopiaEthiopia’s flag is green, yellow and red in equal horizontal stripes with a blue disc in the centre holding a yellow star of equal lines with yellow rays. Ethiopia’s Flag Proclamation makes the green labour, fertility and development, the yellow hope, justice and equality, and the red sacrifice and heroism for freedom and equality; the blue disc is peace and the star the unity of Ethiopia’s nations, nationalities and peoples.
More blueprint symbols
The same shape elsewhere
Browse symbols drawn with circles or lines.
Sources
- Construction Print Reading in the Field, TM 5-704 / AFM 85-27, Departments of the Army and the Air Force, fig. 3-32 (continued)
- Symbols for Electrical Construction Drawings, NECA 100-2013 (ANSI), National Electrical Contractors Association (Internet Archive copy), secs. 2.1 and 2.4, symbols 2.100 and 2.401
- Engineering Aid 3 (NAVEDTRA 14069), Nonresident training course, April 1995, Naval Education and Training Command (copy hosted by Navy Tribe), Ch. 9, electrical symbols; ch. 10, drawing symbols
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