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Dear All,
This is my first post in the forums - so a little background first. I have basically no practical electrical experience but I have almost completed the 'Domestic Electrical Installers' course through OLCI (I have my Part P). I know a lot of you fully qualified guys don't like this 'domestic installer' qualification, and with hindsight I do partly wish I'd done the full thing - my understanding feels sketchy! I do have two friends, who are practising electricians and have some experience lined up starting very soon.
My question relates to replacing a ceiling rose with wago connectors. The reason for this is a friend has asked me to put up some chandeliers. The canopy of the chandelier, which attaches to the ceiling, is quite small and would be difficult to simply attach it 'around' the existing ceiling rose. So I thought using levered wago connectors could be an elegant solution. But is it ok for wago connectors to simply sit in the canopy of the chandelier or would the connectors need to go into a wago box (like with downlights where you can just pop them through the downlight holes)? I don't think the hole in the ceiling where the wires come through is big enough to pop a wago box through.
On a practical level, do any of you have any advice - for eg, do I need to be careful that the wires are long enough to fit into the connectors and then the connectors into the box or is this likely to not be an issue?
If there are some who think wago connectors are not the way forward may I ask how you would approach this job? Simply using connector blocks and have them sit in the canopy?
Many thanks in advance,
Dave
This is my first post in the forums - so a little background first. I have basically no practical electrical experience but I have almost completed the 'Domestic Electrical Installers' course through OLCI (I have my Part P). I know a lot of you fully qualified guys don't like this 'domestic installer' qualification, and with hindsight I do partly wish I'd done the full thing - my understanding feels sketchy! I do have two friends, who are practising electricians and have some experience lined up starting very soon.
My question relates to replacing a ceiling rose with wago connectors. The reason for this is a friend has asked me to put up some chandeliers. The canopy of the chandelier, which attaches to the ceiling, is quite small and would be difficult to simply attach it 'around' the existing ceiling rose. So I thought using levered wago connectors could be an elegant solution. But is it ok for wago connectors to simply sit in the canopy of the chandelier or would the connectors need to go into a wago box (like with downlights where you can just pop them through the downlight holes)? I don't think the hole in the ceiling where the wires come through is big enough to pop a wago box through.
On a practical level, do any of you have any advice - for eg, do I need to be careful that the wires are long enough to fit into the connectors and then the connectors into the box or is this likely to not be an issue?
If there are some who think wago connectors are not the way forward may I ask how you would approach this job? Simply using connector blocks and have them sit in the canopy?
Many thanks in advance,
Dave