Can this light be used?

Jazbo · Post by **Jazbo** » Thu Nov 12, 2020 9:01 am

Hi, the attached photo shows the ceiling rose in place.

I have an LED ceiling light Id like to use, but it has standard neutral, live and earth connections.

Can I use it? And if so, how do those wires get connected?

Thanks.

kellys_eye · Post by **kellys_eye** » Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:32 am

The SAFEST way would be to pull the rose down enough to see where those grey-ey-green wires come from - they should be the sleeved earth (normally exposed copper) wires as part of any normal twin-core and earth arrangement albeit in the old red/black standard.

Could be a colour-fade issue but those wires that look 'grey-ish' would be the earth wiring. Wire your new light where the drop cable is situated (brown and blue) and connect the earth wire to the 'grey-ey-green' wires.

Safer still would be to use a DOUBLE-INSULATED light fitting (normally supplied without an earth wire) and just connect to the red/black (brown/blue) terminals.

yartin · Post by **yartin** » Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:22 pm

If you can check the green is Earth which should be. The rose wiring is tidy. Connect your new lights as kellys_eye said.

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Thu Nov 12, 2020 5:37 pm

Must be my eyes, they look green to me.

Rhetorical question:
If the OP could / knows how to check the earth, why would he be asking how to connect the light.

Scotty001 · Post by **Scotty001** » Fri Nov 13, 2020 6:11 pm

Someone-Else wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 5:37 pm

Rhetorical question:
If the OP could / knows how to check the earth, why would he be asking how to connect the light.

I'm guessing the led light has a different ceiling fixing which means all the wires need to come out of these terminal blocks and connected into the new led light fixing (which may be configured in a different style, depending on the style I'd check that there is room for the wires to connect into the terminals, I've came across a couple of fixings where it's a struggle to get just 2 wires into the terminal which is sealed into the fixing.