How to test a ceiling lights with a plug socket

[alitech]

Hi guys

Please don't kill me. I am not an electrician and this is possibly the very simplest of questions you will read today.

I got a custom light fitting created for me and I wanted to test it without having to get it installed on the ceiling first. There are a few bulb options and I wanted to see which bulb would look best on there which is why I wanted to test it.

I took the wires and put them into a UK plug, and put it into the socket. It doesn't work. Can someone please guide me on how I can test this? Is there anything additional I need to do with the wires for it to work with a plug socket?

Thanks

 

[telectrix]

ere we go again...bulb/lamp....did edison invent the light lamp? did florence nightingale carry a lamp?

 

[Deleted member 26818]

ere we go again...bulb/lamp....did edison invent the light lamp? did florence nightingale carry a lamp?

Thought Edison stole his idea from some Scottish bloke.

 

[telectrix]

think he was a Geordie.

Joseph Swan - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan

 

[Deleted member 26818]

think he was a Geordie.

All sound the same to me.

 

[telectrix]

could say the same for anyone south of birmingham.

 

[sparksburnout]

Will never work,
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Just realised that picture is quite apt for this post. They look like a pair of old bollux.

 

[Spoon]

Just realised that picture is quite apt for this post. They look like a pair of old bollux.

If your danglies look like that then I'd go and see a doctor....

 

[alitech]

Just out of curiosity, who 'created' this for you? Where they an electrician? Did you pay for the light?

It was a custom light that was created for me. Bought on etsy. Designer pendant light. Takes G9 bulbs and fits on a ceiling rose. Has a coloured cable.

 

[Spoon]

Have you got it working yet mate?

 

[Taylortwocities]

You need a two probe voltage tester, or a multimeter to test this and find out where the fault is.
Do you have a multimeter? If not, get yourself down to Maplin before it closes. There will be some going cheap..

 

[Adam W]

This is why we need a picture - for all we know OP could have put a rubber bath plug on the end of the flex and a flowering garden bulb in the fitting

 

[Spoon]

This is why we need a picture - for all we know OP could have put a rubber bath plug on the end of the flex and a flowering garden bulb in the fitting

Now that would be a pretty picture.

 

[pirate]

Too late for Maplin...
I'm sad about that...you could get all sorts of stuff there...

 

[Adam W]

Too late for Maplin...
I'm sad about that...you could get all sorts of stuff there...

I'm still hoping someone will come along and bail them out - there's nowhere else like Maplin on the high street where you can buy the sort of stuff they sold.

 

[Adam W]

What kind of transformer have you got in this light?

... I mean this kind of transformer:

... Not this kind of transformer: