Hi all.
Got asked by a customer to change a couple of pendants in his house to something he had bought from Next.
Nice enough metal twist design. Fragile glass globe shades and you get the shade retention ring tightener for those with chubby fingers.
Mounting bracket has holes that match the pendant screw spacing, along with extras.
The fitting has a rather large connection enclosed in heatshrink, leading to a connector plug.
The connector is a plug and socket, so that is actually a pro to this fitting. Can do all the terminating without the weight of the fitting pulling the wires out. There is no 4th terminal for a looped live, but that is the norm with these things.
Barely enough space to fit in the cable, plug/socket, and the cable to the heatshrinked connector. Baring in mind the metal twists are sticking through into this space as well.
All in all, a complete PITA to work on, but I knew what to expect.
A better design would to make the small cables going down the twists to the lampholder a little longer and terminating them in the plug part of the connector - doing away with the heatshrink covered block altogether
If this house was loop-in, there would be no way of fitting 2 or 3 T&E's into the space without some rewiring of the fitting.
Got asked by a customer to change a couple of pendants in his house to something he had bought from Next.
Nice enough metal twist design. Fragile glass globe shades and you get the shade retention ring tightener for those with chubby fingers.
Mounting bracket has holes that match the pendant screw spacing, along with extras.
The fitting has a rather large connection enclosed in heatshrink, leading to a connector plug.
The connector is a plug and socket, so that is actually a pro to this fitting. Can do all the terminating without the weight of the fitting pulling the wires out. There is no 4th terminal for a looped live, but that is the norm with these things.
Barely enough space to fit in the cable, plug/socket, and the cable to the heatshrinked connector. Baring in mind the metal twists are sticking through into this space as well.
All in all, a complete PITA to work on, but I knew what to expect.
A better design would to make the small cables going down the twists to the lampholder a little longer and terminating them in the plug part of the connector - doing away with the heatshrink covered block altogether
If this house was loop-in, there would be no way of fitting 2 or 3 T&E's into the space without some rewiring of the fitting.