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Just turned up to a regular customers house to replace a pendant with a fancy chandelier. A quick job, so I thought, on the way home. However, 3 translucent single stranded wires, feeding 3 E27 brass lampholders, no earth, etc etc. Purchased from Turkey, wired to "full international stantards" Promised to go back next week to rewire ........ Just feel a bit sorry for all the diyers attempting to wire these up. Shocking.
 

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I would say that each cable needs proving individually, but then again I am a little concise like that. I find that guessing can cause no end of problems.
 
30 seconds with a multi meter would soon sort that out, very simple and straight forward, why go back next week? sort it out now lol
 
In fact one single cable fed the centrepoint of 2 E27 holders, AND the thread part of the third E27 holders. Another single fed the threaded part of the first 2 holders, and the remaining single fed the centrepin of the third lampholders, so even if I commoned two of the singles to provide live, and the remaining single to provide neutral, so all lampholders would be supplied LN, at least one of the lampholders would have a live threaded part, which I wouldn't have been willing to connect, and with absence of cpc and grommets, & double insulation there's no way I'd connect it up. It just bothers me that people can buy internationally from a well known auction site, and end up quite innocently with something really very dangerous ...... Still leaves me with rewiring it tho, as they are valued customers and I don't want to walk away.
 
I would say that each cable needs proving individually, but then again I am a little concise like that. I find that guessing can cause no end of problems.

I had heard you are a little "c" and wondered what it meant .............:grinningelf:
 
30 seconds with a multi meter would soon sort that out, very simple and straight forward, why go back next week? sort it out now lol


I'm with MDJ here!! And, .... if you do need to rewire the lampholders into that bottom section of the fitting (used as a JB) it shouldn't take you no more than an hour...
 

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