Help with ceiling light wiring please...

[Sumanji]

Hey,

Bought some ceiling lights from Ikea, but I'm having some trouble wiring them up. There are 3 wires coming from the ceiling:

2 x red
1x red + 1x black
1x red + 1x black

To the old ceiling pendant, one red from the first wire and both blacks were actively connected to the light. The 3 other reds were all screwed to a blank terminal (I've taped them together temporarily).

The new fitting as you can see has space for 2 x live and 2 x neutral (no earth). How should I got about wiring this up?

Cheers,

Suman

 

[Sumanji]

Nope no pic of before, sorry but it's wired like I said (the solitary red to the red on the pendant, and the two blacks to the single black on the pendant - the other 3 wires together to one terminal, not connected to anything else).

Terminal blocks? I bust apart the old ceiling pendant and was going to use a screw terminal from there to hold the 3 reds together... is that ok?

Cheers,

Suman

 

[Sumanji]

I wired it up in a sort of logical way... and it works perfectly! Just wanna know if it's safe to leave the wiring like this...

There is no earth connection so I've just tucked those wires out of the way... and the 3 live ring wires are all screwed into a brass screw terminal which i wrenched out of the old pendant (is that ok??).

Thanks

Suman

 

[Sumanji]

RTFM

Clearly you haven't seen an Ikea manual before - there are no words to read

 

[Sumanji]

Cool, thanks Scoobs - will rock down to B&Q now and pick a couple up

Cheers,

Suman

 

[Sumanji]

Is it one of these type lights ?

Fo' sho'

 

[Sumanji]

Ok I wandered over to B&Q and they have lots of connector blocks but no terminal ones...

They just have ones where there are 6 connections in and 6 out (each paired, but none connected to each other). I just need one to join the 3 lives wires (ring in, ring out and switch).

So should I be looking for something different?

Cheers,

Suman