Hello there, I am installing six Downlights in my kitchen and would like to wire them up in daisy chain. Can I use 0.75mm2 two core wire for thIs operation. There are only two terminals on each downlight which I assume are Live and Neutral
Installing LED 5w Downlights
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The instructions say " live supply to the brown input cable and neutral supply to the blue input cable. Terminate your earth and loop cables as necessary." There are 3 cables out of the ceiling, BLACK, RED and EARTH
So the answer to your original question seems to be NO, you need a 3 core cable to be able to earth the fittings. Your black cable should be neutral, the red will be live & the earth wire would normally be green or green/yellow sleeved.
There are 3 wires coming out of the ceiling, red, black and earth. From the ceiling pendant there is 2 wires, brown and blue into the bulb socket. These are the 2 wires I was planning on using to go into the first downlight as there is only 2 terminals on the downlight and no earth terminal. Is this connection correct
Do you need the ceiling rose? Or are you using it is a junction box only?
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