Unknown Connector - help please?

[keelbolt]

I need to disconnect a bathroom ceiling light - removing the single brown, yellow, blue with black casing - , but I've never come across a connector like this one. I thought it might be a case of lifting each of the tabs, but I just can't figure out how to release these three leads. Could someone please advise?
Thanks

 

[AndyPRK]

Press down on the panio keys marked L N

 

[pete01]

I think you need to push a small screwdriver into the hole and it releases the catch the you pull the wire out.

If you mean the other side you just push it down.

Power off first obviously

 

[flameport]

removing the single brown, yellow, blue with black casing

No you don't.
The black flex is part of the light, so is that connector. It will be going away with the old light.

The wires to remove are those on the other side.
The new light will be supplied with a connector.

 

[SUNRAY]

No you don't.
The black flex is part of the light, so is that connector. It will be going away with the old light.

The wires to remove are those on the other side.
The new light will be supplied with a connector.

Correct advice is good advice.

The new light MAY be supplied with a connector.

We see many on here which don't.

 

[flameport]

Lights with no connector are non-compliant junk, probably direct imports from far away.

In any event, that existing connector is not intended to be reused for the light fitting side.

 

[pete01]

We dont know why he wants to disconnect it, maybe he wants it gone to decorate then he will put it back up? Who knows.....

 

[keelbolt]

Thanks, guys. Reason for needing downlight disconnect / reconnect: replacing ceiling plasterboard in bathroom. Don't need to replace them as they are working fine - it's the plasterboard that's broken.
The other two downlights are 12v, easy to disconnect and reconnect. This one appears to be 240v connected with this thing. ChatGPT has found it by the picture (BEDE OJ-831), and tells me: "This connector is designed for quick and easy installation without the need for tools, ensuring efficient wiring solutions'.
Really?

 

[endecotp]

I thought it might be a case of lifting each of the tabs

Push down, not lift up.

ChatGPT has found it by the picture (BEDE OJ-831), and tells me: "This connector is designed for quick and easy installation without the need for tools, ensuring efficient wiring solutions'.
Really?

Yes, really. For once ChatGPT is right. Just push down the lever and pull out the wire.

 

[SUNRAY]

Lights with no connector are non-compliant junk,

Compliant with what? Where does it say that anything has to have a connector attatched? Many compliant products are supplied without plugs or connectors or terminals. As an immediate example I just happen to have a tab open at the moment showing this:

Oh look bare ended wires

probably direct imports from far away.

More of your flippant comments?

In any event, that existing connector is not intended to be reused for the light fitting side.

I can't see enough detail in the picture to tell if it is a type which is releasable - some of that appearance are and some are not.

 

[JohnW2]

Lights with no connector are non-compliant junk, probably direct imports from far away.

Do you mean ones like this range from TLC (and very similar from most suppliers) which are supplied with a very short piece of 2-core flex with 'bare' ends? ...

 

[ebee]

Lights with no connector are non-compliant junk, probably direct imports from far away.

Not having read the spec I have no idea whether that is so or not so.
It is not something I would have considered one way or the other.

 

[SUNRAY]

Do you mean ones like this range from TLC (and very similar from most suppliers) which are supplied with a very short piece of 2-core flex with 'bare' ends? ...

Not having read the spec I have no idea whether that is so or not so.
It is not something I would have considered one way or the other.

It's not worth persuing this, it is just more of JW's ficticious junk he keeps spouting and he will not respond when caught out.
Sadly making such false statements and not backing them up with explanations tends to put the whole of his advice into doubt.

 

[JohnW2]

It's not worth persuing this, it is just more of JW's ficticious junk he keeps spouting and he will not respond when caught out.
Sadly making such false statements and not backing them up with explanations tends to put the whole of his advice into doubt.

I've often made my views about him known (often 'to his face' in this forum). He is a very intelligent and knowledgeable guy, with excellent communication skills and (for whatever reason) offers the world a lot of very useful stuff in his videos and website.

In view of that, he has a very 'good reputation' in many/most people's eyes, but therein lies my main concern. He has these personal opinions (with which not everyone would agree) about 'junk' etc., about the 'need' to utilise the newest-fangled of what technology is available (and seems to 'buy in' to arguments that there is a 'need' for them) etc. etc. and presents those opinions as 'assertions' which, coupled with his reputation, undoubtedly make many people believe those opinions to be undisputed facts and/or 'regulatory requirements'.

 

[333rocky333]

"This connector is designed for quick and easy installation without the need for tools, ensuring efficient wiring solutions'.
Really?

The consumer side is for easy installation, them flaps push down, , the load side is not, that is connected during manufacture.
To release them use a paper clip pushed in them small holes or sometimes just pull the wire hard, often though the load side is not reusable and the new cable fails to grip in. thats even if you can get the cable back in, unprepared bare flex will be difficult.
If you do need that load side disconnected preferably just cut it off totally and use an alternative solution maybe wagos.
As others have mentioned the consumer side simply pushes down to release. which is sufficient to remove the fitting