A little light fixture wiring Query

[Evans8773]

Hi all, my wife's friend has asked me change a light fitting in her dining room. The current light has a live, neutral and earth only feeding it. the light she has purchased has 2 cords suspending it. 1 length of the cord goes into the connector block and the other length has has just live and neutral wires that have a rubber/plastic (circled)covering on them as you can see in the picture.

On the right hand side of the picture the cable comes in the fixture and goes to the connector block, the left hand side comes into the connector and had a plstic/rubber cap on it . So is this a straightforward wiring into the connector block as instructions suggest or does that length with the cap come into play...Also light does not need an earth so will just put a single wago on that...

Hope thats clear enough..

Cheers

 

[terryplumb]

Take the mounting bracket off completely and show us another pic so we can see where both black flex go to.
As well as a pic of the entire light fitting.

 

[Evans8773]

awaiting pics , cheers

 

[Evans8773]

hope this helps

 

[Evans8773]

Instructions

 

[terryplumb]

Looks like you connect live and neutral supplies into the connector block,no earth connection required.
The other black flex apparently only used for hanging purposes only ,no electrical connection.

 

[terryplumb]

Really needs round two core flex supply cable to connect up ,not twin and earth flat cable.

 

[Evans8773]

Looks like you connect live and neutral supplies into the connector block,no earth connection required.
The other black flex apparently only used for hanging purposes only ,no electrical connection.

That other black flex is actually a wire if you take that rubber/plastic cap off. So gather that’s used so it matches the cable you wire up. So straightforward swap it seems and put a single wago on the earth wire.

Thanks for your help Sir

 

[SUNRAY]

Looks like you connect live and neutral supplies into the connector block,no earth connection required.
The other black flex apparently only used for hanging purposes only ,no electrical connection.

A visit to a customer found a very similar sort of fitting which tripped the MCB.

He had connected the second cable which was only there for suspension and as luck had it (may be by design?) the second cable had a short circuit.