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Kitchen light Fitting

rubberduckey · 2006-11-02 22:13:37

Hi There hope someone can advise me on what to do. Being the idiot that I am I hit the kitchen lampshade very heavily and the whole fitting came off. I'm now left with the flex and a brown and blue wire protruding. Can someone please tell me how to proceed(safely) I have included a photo of what im left with.

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02-11-2006 11:13pm

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rubberduckey

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Hi There hope someone can advise me on what to do.

Being the idiot that I am I hit the kitchen lampshade very heavily and the whole fitting came off.

I'm now left with the flex and a brown and blue wire protruding.

Can someone please tell me how to proceed(safely)

I have included a photo of what im left with.

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#2 03-11-2006 1:01am
towbar

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Looks like an ordinary light fitting. The wires in the bulb holder are not marked and can be connected either way around. Be careful as there may be power in either of those wires as the last person may not have kept the brown as live in the ceiling rose.

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#3 03-11-2006 10:31am
Lex Luthor

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Turn off the breaker for the lights at the consumer unit.
Strip back the wires to expose about 4mm of wire.
Re-connect back in both brown & blue wires to the light fitting that broke off.
Turn back on breaker.

Its as easy as wiring a plug.

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