Good Evening gents,
I have a couple of queries about this light fixture. Photos attached.
The lighting upstairs is on a spur so it's not complicated to wire up. I put a smaller version of this one up in the little room a week ago but this big unit has thrown me a bit. The instructions are crap, it basically says live to live, neutral to neutral, job done.
The connector block on the smaller one was on the back with space between the ceiling and the backplate, but for some reason this one is inside the light right next to the bulb, although the socket for the bulb seems to be made out of some ceramic material. Does the light look safe?
Where I want to put this is to replace a crappy old pendant light in the passage but I unscrewed the fixture from the ceiling first to check and there's not enough wire to get around this backplate and through into the light (it's about a foot and a half wide) without moving the flush light off to the side and it will look daft offset that much, so what I intend to do is use a wago junction box and connectors, and put some 1.5mm cable through. However, I don't think I can get the cable through that silly hole with the clear plastic washer you can see, and I'm guessing you're not supposed to. Can I cut the outer sheath of the cable, and just feed the live, neutral and earth through the hole, and cover the earth with sheath, and cover the live and neutral with the white sheathing that these units come with? It's the same stuff that is covering the wires you can see from the block to the lights, both of the fittings I've bought come with it. And is heat an issue? I wasn't sure if heat-resistant flex might be better in this situation.
Then finally, the current plastic pendant rose is just screwed into the ceiling and it's sitting smack bang between two joists. You screw this thing in on those 4 dimpled holes, and I can't get any of them near the joist without moving the light off centre too much. This light comes with four screws and four cheap grey plastic rawl plugs, I don't really trust them, I only used them on the little room light because there were 3 holes and I could line two of them up with the joist. I can get on top of this easy from the attic so I was considering bolting it to the ceiling with washers but that seemed a bit much, is there a better way? This unit isn't massively heavy but it's probably a good half a kilo or more.
I have a couple of queries about this light fixture. Photos attached.
The lighting upstairs is on a spur so it's not complicated to wire up. I put a smaller version of this one up in the little room a week ago but this big unit has thrown me a bit. The instructions are crap, it basically says live to live, neutral to neutral, job done.
The connector block on the smaller one was on the back with space between the ceiling and the backplate, but for some reason this one is inside the light right next to the bulb, although the socket for the bulb seems to be made out of some ceramic material. Does the light look safe?
Where I want to put this is to replace a crappy old pendant light in the passage but I unscrewed the fixture from the ceiling first to check and there's not enough wire to get around this backplate and through into the light (it's about a foot and a half wide) without moving the flush light off to the side and it will look daft offset that much, so what I intend to do is use a wago junction box and connectors, and put some 1.5mm cable through. However, I don't think I can get the cable through that silly hole with the clear plastic washer you can see, and I'm guessing you're not supposed to. Can I cut the outer sheath of the cable, and just feed the live, neutral and earth through the hole, and cover the earth with sheath, and cover the live and neutral with the white sheathing that these units come with? It's the same stuff that is covering the wires you can see from the block to the lights, both of the fittings I've bought come with it. And is heat an issue? I wasn't sure if heat-resistant flex might be better in this situation.
Then finally, the current plastic pendant rose is just screwed into the ceiling and it's sitting smack bang between two joists. You screw this thing in on those 4 dimpled holes, and I can't get any of them near the joist without moving the light off centre too much. This light comes with four screws and four cheap grey plastic rawl plugs, I don't really trust them, I only used them on the little room light because there were 3 holes and I could line two of them up with the joist. I can get on top of this easy from the attic so I was considering bolting it to the ceiling with washers but that seemed a bit much, is there a better way? This unit isn't massively heavy but it's probably a good half a kilo or more.
