Downlighter Wiring - Thoughts?

[Iggifer]

Just finished tidying up some atrocious downlighter wiring in my house.

Thinking I could go a bit shorter on the conductors in the boxes and need to pick up some double cable clips to get that T+E clipped down but, thoughts so far?

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New Install

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Kinda bummed my harmonised label isn't quite central

 

[janner10]

Have a cookie!

 

[Chri5]

Didn't know that the te version of the glands could seal on two cables, or are they round cable glands that were in the toolbox?

I'd have used a sharpie to mark the box lids adding a mark on top and side so the lid goes on as it came off, not rotated 90 / 180 or 270. After a few years in the loft you may find the labels has been stolen by the label fairy (the sticky fails and they get blown off).

 

[Iggifer]

They're round glands. They're really only for aesthetics, like I say I'll be clipping the t+e so they don't need to provide strain relief.

The cables are marked in sharpie also because yea im sure the labels will last about 3 weeks, especially on the cables. I like the idea of marking the lid orientation. Will do that later

If they made a T+E gland that could take two cables I would gladly have used that. But the top box would have needed 7 holes (6 fittings + 1 feed). Think I would have been pushing it to get 3 x 20mm holes on a 100mm box without breaking it