in this video i am going to use this switch and load from QuickWire in order to make my
connections so i can facilitate this new LED light that my wife wants putting in the lounge
i've dropped down the ceiling rose and pendant we'll have a look at the connections in there
to see if it's using the two plate or the three plate method and the safe isolation
procedure has been carried out i've done that many times on the channel so if you want to
see that i'll leave a link for it in the description or it'll appear in the eye above my head however
this video is all about whether this Quick Wire bit of kit here can make it easier to
make the connections for this LED light fitting
so let's have a look inside our ceiling rose the first thing you might notice is we've
got maybe one cable less than you expect this is because this light here is the last one
on the lighting circuit so let's see what we've got this side here we've got the brown
conductor coming down to our pendant with a blue conductor next to it but no it's got
some brown sleeving so that is actually not a neutral it's a switching line conductor
it comes in with a permanent line conductor which is in loop and a CPC we've also got
the permanent line neutral and CPC which brings our power supply in so remember from our wiring
diagrams we're looking at this and trying to work out whether it's the two plate or
the three plate method because we're using the loop terminal here hopefully you've worked
it out it's a three plate method so our power comes into loop it comes down to our switch
and then back on this one which is blue with brown sleeve which is our switching line and
on the other side of the fit and we've got a blue neutral so we're going to need to take
these connections out and put them into our Quickwire connector so here we've got our
switch and load now you've got the power coming in which we've got coming into here but as
it's the last point on circuit we won't need the connections on the other side which is
the power out to the next room so we're going to bring in our line neutral and CPC and make
our connections into here on the other side as i turn it round we've got the switch one
so we'll have our permanent line and switching line connections along with a CPC going into
here and then our new cable which comes down to our LED light or load we'll have our switching
line neutral and CPC and i've already connected that into the LED light fitting and it just
clips into here so let's take the connections out of our ceiling rose and make them into
here before we pop this into the ceiling and we can fit our LED light fitting so this is
our what they call the power so this is our permanent line neutral and CPC coming in there
is no one going out and this goes down to our switch which brings the permanent line
switching line and CPC back so we're going to need to make our connections in the right
part of this so we're looking for if i'm going to do this one first which is our supply into
the fitting they've called it power and we need to strip this back and pop it into this
Quickwire connector we've seen these on the channel before how easy they are but i'll
show you once again how to cut this back and just pop it into place
rather than trimming these back to length i'm going to cut them off and show you again
my lovely wire strippers i've got so i'm going to take this one and cut it off bring in my
twin and earth strippers or my twin and CPC strippers they're for flat cable up to 2.5
i've got a 22 mil is my first length so i'll bring it in and bring the grey outside PVC
sheath down to 22 mil i pull that and just pull it off next one the length is the end
of the grey sheath to there gives me my actual conductor length i need to strip off the conductor
length is stated on here between 15 and 17 mil but if you use that as a barometer so
in other words the grey PVC sheath at the end of the stripping tool you get it right
we pull those off and we've seen this before remember this one needs to be the power one
so we've just got to get the polarity correct there are three very small holes in there
they're going to line up when they almost self line up with it in there but we must
make sure we get the polarity correct so those little three holes in there so i bring it
round i've got neutral CPC in line i've got it in the correct position all i'm going to
do is pop it into there you can see through the window i'm making those connections in
the window and all you do now is just push it into place there you go the power is connected
now into this Quick Wire switch and load connectors that's the supply coming in we haven't got
a supply going out so we don't need that section there we can just click that into place all
we've got to do now is put the switch and load in so i've got the switch here we'll
do that one next
so we've got the switch one now so we've got switch line line and CPC so that's our permanent
line connection and our switching line connection being one which is effectively blue with brown
sleeve and on it we can take that off now because the connections are going to come
into here so you won't see those and again i'm going to cut it off and use those fantastic
twin earth strippers i like so much once again bring it into 22 mil so line it up in the
correct position just take your time get it in the right place and just pull pull off
the outside PVC mechanical protection repeat the process again from a conductor length
slide that one off and now we've just got to make sure we make the connections correctly
so if i just pull that one up i'm going to fold this one around i've now got to make
sure i'm the correct way around well switching line is this side so i'm going to be that
way around and i'm going to find the holes as i did before it self fines just check my
polarity i've got my switching line this side and my line connection that side you probably
can't see so just pull it back out a little bit you can just see them they're going incorrectly
push them connection made for the switch so i've made my fitting up already so the wife
chose this one i've got my twin and CPC cable ready to be connected as neutral CPC and switching
line so neutral CPC and switching line so when we come back to the Quickwire connector
we turn it around we can see we've got load we've got an N for neutral our earth symbol
for our CPC and our switching line so once again it's just about making sure you get
it incorrectly it finds the three holes that are in there like so i've just checked i've
got my neutral on the correct side CPC and switching line and just push it into place
all it needs now is this connector to go up into the ceiling and obviously to fit my LED
light fitting and then we can power up and see if we've got a nice new life in
that was something different for the channel but it links back into looking at whether
it was a two play or three plate method and using a different form of connections in order
that we can install this new LED light all it needs now is for the light to come on and
there we go as always i hope this video has been some help