Wiring up a lamp

chewed

Hi, looking for some advice. I have a lamp that fell over and the wires (Live and Neutral) came out of their connections.

There is no indication of what each connection should be, as you'd normally see on a plug! Does anyone know how I would know where to connect the Live and Neutral wires?

Andrea B.

The 2 terminals we can see take the brown and blue.
As it is switched, the switch should at the least be isolating the live (brown). We can not assume both are isolated by switch.
To identify which terminal is for the live, you would need a multimeter, or an electrical repair store could identify in 30 seconds.
The earth (green/yel) should go in another terminal which is part of metal body, which we can not see in image.

melon_collie

It doesn't matter which terminal is wired to which wire. The bulb will operate no matter what way it is placed into the holder. The Blue goes into one terminal and brown goes into the other. the earth (yellow/green) needs to be fixed to the main body of the lamp (metal part) somehow. I don't think that there is a terminal on that connector.

chewed

Thank you!!!

Andrea B.

melon_collie wrote: »

It doesn't matter which terminal is wired to which wire. The bulb will operate no matter what way it is placed into the holder. The Blue goes into one terminal and brown goes into the other. the earth (yellow/green) needs to be fixed to the main body of the lamp (metal part) somehow. I don't think that there is a terminal on that connector.

It needs to be ascertained that the switch shown in image at the very least isolates the live.
We can not assume that it isolates both, without a continuity check.

Randyleprechaun

Switch definitely needs to be isolating the live conductor.

Easy enough to find out with multimeter and know how