Binning flourescent tube for ceiling rose

[oldfella]

I want to change the fitting by dumping the old tube and fitting a standard rose type unit. The tube works off a single light switch and I want to leave this as is. When I look at the wires connecting the tube there are a number of red, black and green, do I simply connect all these into the separete connectors in the new rose?? (all reds to one connection, all blacks to another, and earth to another)
Thank you for any help you can offer.

 

[davy_owen_88]

do I simply connect all these into the separete connectors in the new rose?? (all reds to one connection, all blacks to another, and earth to another)

No! All reds together, all earths together but one of the black conductors should have a red sleeve. This is the switched live and connects to the live terminal of the light fitting.

See below:

Red - brown
Black - blue

 

[oldfella]

Thank you for your help, I am grateful.

 

[Steve]

Binning flourescent tube

OH no you dont!

 

[Taylortwocities]

Indeed, the bin Police will be on you like a ton of asbestos.

See regs re this at http://www.sepa.org.uk/pdf/guidance/waste/swan/SWAN01.pdf

This, of course, includes low energy lamps and we will all have to be using those in the near future.
I wonder if the lamp police have considered the additional cost of disposal in with their savings calculations of low energy v tungsten lamps

 

[lookinn]

Low energy lamps have a very bad power factor. You have to supply more power to them but as your meter only reads true power you dont pay for it. In fact they consume more power than a normal light bulb.

 

[ricicle]

In fact they consume more power than a normal light bulb.

Absolute rubbish.

 

[Stoday]

Indeed, the bin Police will be on you like a ton of asbestos.

Do these police share an office with the Part P police and anti-smoking police?

As only the latter is funded, can we assume that neither the bin police nor the Part P police exist, so no-one will catch our transgressions?

 

[Steve]

Low energy lamps have a very bad power factor. You have to supply more power to them but as your meter only reads true power you dont pay for it. In fact they consume more power than a normal light bulb.

*******s

 

[Stoday]

This, of course, includes low energy lamps and we will all have to be using those in the near future.

That remains to be seen.

Some recent research from Germany showed that energy saving lamps used the same amount of energy as traditional filiament lamps. Moreover, microwave ovens used a negative amount of electricity!

I ought to point out that the research used multivariate regression analysis to obtain the consumption of an additional appliance/lamp to a household. Thus in the case of the microwave oven, the reduced use of a normal oven was taken into account. The addition of the microwave reduced annual consumption by 41 kWh a year.

Those who find the poor use of English on this forum irksome will be overjoyed by the report's inclusion of education as a variable. It seems that the thickos consume 114 kWh a year more because they're thick.

Link for unbelievers: http://mail.mtprog.com/CD_Layout/Day_3_23.06.06/0900-1045/ID210_Gruber_final.pdf