Downlighter Question

[charliefunkuk]

Putting some downlighters in my ceiling and have a couple of questions:-

1) The terminal blocks on the actual light fitting are too small to accept 2 cables (cable in and the one back out again to next light). Is it acceptable to use a terminal block in the ceiling for the 2 wires to go into then use a short piece of cable from the terminal block into the downlighter itself.

2) The instructions say do not earth, so I assume I just cut back the earth wire away from the twin and earth cable I have installed? Besides there is no terminal on the fitting for an earth cable anyway.

Many thanks in advance for your help


Neil

 

[luminaire]

Never had any problems terminating the cables, but you could use a 20A J/B instead.
We generally don't like to snip earth cable. Even if it's not wanted now someone may decide they might need it at a later date, so generally we just stick a connector over it and wrap a piece of g/y tape over it.

 

[charliefunkuk]

many thanks for your help. Will probably just stick with the terminal block as there a bit smaller than a junction box else my ceiling will be full of boxes!