I'm trying to replace my existing light fitting in the bedroom ceiling with a Kuba mains voltage halogen 4 spot unit made by Ring of Leeds and bought from Focus DIY. The instructions with the halogen unit say the appliance must be earthed but there is no earth wire sticking out of the hole in the ceiling. Its a flat roof so cannot fit an earth. There are three wires coming out of the ceiling and two are bound together. Will I have to take the light back and replaced it with a unit requiring no earth? I rang Focus DIY who said I should screw the earth lead from the light into a joist - can this be right?
No earth in ceiling
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breezer
Deffinently do notscrew the earth into a joist. if your extension is fairly new there will be an earth. it has probably been cut off. strip back the outer (grey or white) sheath for the cables you should find a bare wire that is the earth.
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breezer
RBH, does that mean your lights are still sitting in the corner?
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breezer said:
Not quite in a corner, they are not that badly behaved yet. They are still sitting cozy in their boxes. but if they don't smarten up will be back to the shop
I have only ever connected new lights with two wires, and these things have an additional earth wire on the fixing and another earth wire attached to the metal casing. what a palaver
By the way someone also recommended I join the earth wires to the joists. good job I din't try that one
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