three lamps.....one cable

how can i wire three lamp/hanging bulb holders to one cable

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xyz
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NT

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tabbypurr

Unfortunately as this was posted from within a web site and its gone all over the world via Usenet, the full context eludes us all.

Brian

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Brian Gaff

Get three more bits of cable, strip to the bare wires with your teeth [1], twist them together and wrap Sellotape round the joints.

[1] You can turn the power off if you like, but there's a good chance someone will come into the room and turn it on again.
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Max Demian

Good advice :)

When my mother moved into her new house the previous owners had removed the light fittings, replaced them with a single pendant fitting. No ceiling rose, junction box or even a choc-block. The wires in the ceiling had been twisted together and had been insulated (or more probably wrapped to stick them together) with a single layer of Sellotape.

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alan_m

Hush, lest the Safe & Health-ty fascists hear you. We don't want to end up like Australia. After all, look at Rod Speed.

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Huge

replying to xyz, Iggy wrote: Daisy-chain them. You wire them to each other with the vary same cable in shorter (or not) lengths, like you're wiring just one and continue down the line. However, depending on the lamp-holders, you may be able to have both in and out wires under the screws or you can wire-nut the in and out together with a short 3rd wire (a pigtail) that's the only wire under the screws for the 1st and 2nd lamp-holders.

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Iggy

If you put bulbs in series they are going to run rather dim.

You wire them to each other with the vary same cable in

Wire nuts - some horrible American way of joining cable ?

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alan_m

replying to alan_m, Iggy wrote: Yes they would, that's why I described Parallel wiring...the same as everything in your house.

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Iggy

Illegal here for house wiring since the 1950s IIRC. Sometimes found inside appliances though.

NT

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tabbypurr

Screwfix sold them a year or two back, probably not very popular as they no longer do ...

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Andy Burns

Hideous things. Get some WAGO lever lock connectors instead.

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Huge

They stopped being useful when we went away from 3/.029.. They never really worked properly with a single solid cored cable I've got a few ceramic ones arouns somewhere. I was told they were called "Screw-its!

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charles

WAGO connectors are a modern invention. They weren't around in 1960 when I did my electrical workshop course.

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charles

It is perhaps fortunate then that it is 2017 and not 1960.

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Huge

221 are the latest revision (smaller) the newer wagoboxes don't take the 222 series
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Andy Burns

On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:05:02 UTC+1, charles wrote: They stopped being useful when we went away from 3/.029.. They never really

The trade name was Scruit. My entire lighting circuit had them for looping the neutral at the switch.

Owain

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spuorgelgoog

thank's for the info.

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charles

I recently found a couple in a Aldi/Lidl floor standing up-lighter but the connections had also been reinforced with heat shrink tubing. The unit was reportedly made in Germany - but with some of the main modules with a made in china label.

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alan_m

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