Coronavirus - Keeping it light :-)

[pirate]

"Dad, can you pop over here and stick up these new ceiling lights I got from Argos?"
Me: "No!"

After further discussion, she is getting rid of 2 plastic pendants and replacing them with two 3-spot fittings, circular metal thingies. Oh joy...what will i find?

Well, that's a good start...
Nowhere to "park" the cpc in the rose, but maybe...just maybe they didn't cut it off above the ceiling?

Oh well, better than I expected! I wonder if it's connected at the CU? I'll let you know.

 

[pirate]

I guess it was just a slip that the installer cut the blue wire to the pendant and took the obvious alternative route...but a wee bit of blue tape would've been nice, albeit the situation is perfectly clear. However, a short length of new flex would have been a better solution. The brown wire has its insulation "nicked" too, though it's not that clear in the photo.

 

[Dartlec]

I guess it was just a slip that the installer cut the blue wire to the pendant and took the obvious alternative route...but a wee bit of blue tape would've been nice, albeit the situation is perfectly clear. However, a short length of new flex would have been a better solution. The brown wire has its insulation "nicked" too, though it's not that clear in the photo.

Been up there long enough that you have plausible deniability, I assume? ?

 

[Mike Johnson]

Plausible deniability, not a phrase used in an English Court by anyone who wanted to be taken seriously.

Plausible deniability - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

simple.wikipedia.org

 

[pirate]

Plausible deniability or not, I've never been in there before, so it wisnae me, m'lud!

here's a pic of the new fitting, and it's not bad, considering how awful some of them are.

usual cpc to "tag" on base, into block and with a fly lead to the mounting bracket as well, taken from a bolt holding one of the lampholders. It's also a decent diameter, allowing a fair degree of positioning over the original rose position. TBH, not bad really.

 

[telectrix]

bet it's going to have halogen fire bulbs in it.

 

[pirate]

Nope, Tel...led GU10s, 100° beam angle, 5.5W...I've not had that wide beam angle before, just the usual 36 or 38° so I'm interested to see how they perform.

 

[Dartlec]

Plausible deniability or not, I've never been in there before, so it wisnae me, m'lud!

here's a pic of the new fitting, and it's not bad, considering how awful some of them are.
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usual cpc to "tag" on base, into block and with a fly lead to the mounting bracket as well, taken from a bolt holding one of the lampholders. It's also a decent diameter, allowing a fair degree of positioning over the original rose position. TBH, not bad really.

Yep - seen a lot worse - with smaller 'roses' that style of terminal blocks is often unusable, since the existing cable is too short to reach far enough away from the ceiling to connect to the terminals with a screwdriver.... So you end up adding tails and not enough space in the rose for existing cables, so end up hacking the ceiling out to fit a wago lite or similar in there...grrr

Wish these light fittings would switch over to quick fit terminals, cost would likely be pennies these days if that.

 

[OnlQQker]

Meanwhile...

 

[littlespark]

COVID, people.
I had my first at 11 this morning... didn’t feel a thing. Took the afternoon off and watched telly.
9:30 pm tonight.... got the shivers. Legs are jelly... ache in between my shoulder blades.
I know side effects are normal up to 24 hours later....
Did anyone else get knocked down with the first jab?

(that’s not a boxing pun)

 

[loz2754]

COVID, people.
I had my first at 11 this morning... didn’t feel a thing. Took the afternoon off and watched telly.
9:30 pm tonight.... got the shivers. Legs are jelly... ache in between my shoulder blades.
I know side effects are normal up to 24 hours later....
Did anyone else get knocked down with the first jab?

(that’s not a boxing pun)

Me. Very similar. Lasted 24 hours then I was fine.

 

[Dartlec]

You'll be pleased to know that based on people I know it seems to be the second jab that knocks more people out (mine is booked for June). Only seems lasts 24-36 hours though...

 

[brianmoooore]

2nd jab last Saturday. Didn't even feel the needle for the first one, and no after effects whatsoever. Felt the second needle a little, but again, absolutely nothing afterwards. Can't even determine exactly where the needle went in.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Would be interesting to compare if the jabs you had where the Astra Zenica or Pfizer, I had the Pfizer jab and the first gave me an achy arm the day after, the second jab no problem on the day, but very wobbly the day after, it does seem the Astra jab is not as intrusive with side effects.

 

[littlespark]

I got the Astra, and I’ve woken up with what feels like a hangover sore head.