How to Wire up a Ceiling Rose Pendant - Wire Up & Connections Explained Using the 3 Plate Method

How to connect up a ceiling rose and pendant and make sure the conductors are neatly dressed. We look at the layout of a ceiling rose and its connections - loop, neutral and switching line and how best to lay them out to minimise crossing over of conductors. At college we often have only 2 twin and CPC (twin and earth) cables at the lighting points during training but often in the real world this would be 3 cables. The connections in the ceiling rose are for the 3 plate method of wiring a lighting point explained.
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== 🕐 Time Stamps - Cut to the action 🕕 ==
00:00 - How to connect up a ceiling rose and pendant
00:33 - Identifying your switching cable
02:07 - Are the conductors lined up?
02:48 - Makes sure your switching line is in the correct place
03:33 - Stripping cables with a knife
04:20 - Using my twin and earth strippers
04:30 - Important to know your switching line conductor
04:55 - Identifying your switching line conductor
05:27 - What are the conductors in my ceiling rose
06:08 - Connecting my circuit protective conductors (CPC's)
09:02 - Connecting the neutrals into my ceiling rose
09:49 - Fancy Knipex 5 in 1 plyers
10:50 - Connecting my line conductors into my loop terminal
11:24 - Cheating stripping 3 conductors at once
12:17 - Connecting our switching line conductor
13:01 - Whats going on in our ceiling rose
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this recording is excellent in all aspects and much to be learned from it.

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Great tutorial, looking forward to the rest of the Vids on lighting circuits

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Not a sparky myself but great video none the less

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Thanks for the video Gaz. I've noticed you seem a little out of breath recently, I had Covid a couple of months ago (no real problems) but do feel a little breathless sometimes. Have you had it?

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[@michealplater9007]

I cut my switch wire at 45 degrees, saves writing on cables and sometimes they get covered in paint or plaster

[@davideyres955]

Hope you are feeling better soon. Could you do a video on how you would correctly wire live and neutral to the switch and then to the next light in the run. As the US runs line and neutral to the switch, a lot of the smart switches need it to work. There are no neutral switches available but I get the feeling that line and neutral is going to become more common so it would be good to see the correct way to do it. Hope it’s nothing serious and you get well soon.

[@GSHElectrical]

Taking the Feed (Supply) to the Light Switch the 2 Plate Method kzbin.info/aero/PL2Ea5r9gxUUevU9gv8lizD53aYvwiJ5qr This is what we do in the U.K. when we take the neutral to the switch 👍🏻

[@wordbabcock]

So helpful-thank you. However the new light I’m putting up only has a terminal with three holes (L,N and earth). How do I get 3 sets of cables in?!?! Where do all the reds go?

[@Scribe3168]

Would it be incorrect to put the switched live into the live of the pendant and both neutrals into the neutral side of the pendant and only have the commons on the rose?

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yet again, another fantastic video - Thanks a lot :-) One question... Wiha or Wera for purchasing a once in a lifetime (hopefully) decent set of screwdrivers!?!? ;-)

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[@leestorey18]

Any chance on a video performing the same with power to another room or extra lights but in two plate

[@GSHElectrical]

Taking the Feed (Supply) to the Light Switch the 2 Plate Method kzbin.info/aero/PL2Ea5r9gxUUevU9gv8lizD53aYvwiJ5qr

[@ro63rto]

Just decided to upgrade the lighting in a bedroom and saw this video in my suggested list. The bedroom has one silly globe fixture right above the window which is a ridiculous place to put a light. I want to have the light in the middle of the room. What would be the best way to move the fixture?

[@howyg101]

You would need to fit a new ceiling rose and disconnect the wires from the old one and put them into the new one. However this assumes there is enough cable to reach the new position if not you would need to extend the existing cables using a suitable junction box. However this raises the question of whether this requires a minor works certificate as you are extending the circuit perhaps a certified electrician can comment.

[@B00STA55]

why not use the earth to strip it?

[@nocode1603]

On the blue switch wire I was taught to bend the switch wire in to an s shape s=switch wire 👍

[@GSHElectrical]

Top tip 👍🏻

[@darrenwilson5715]

Hi, I’m baffled because when trying to install a new strip light in my garage. The existing one came crashing to the ground exposing all the wires. There’s four cables two with red black and earth and two with only red and earth?? What’s that about? Love to hear your thoughts. Thanks

[@bobbybenjani1978]

Not possible

[@krisking2]

My ceiling has 4, four, cables coming out of the ceiling.

[@richierich8334]

Even after years I still shy away from lighting circuits. I just can't get my head around it, no matter how hard I try. It can get so confusing.

[@GSHElectrical]

Wiring Diagrams for Lighting and Motor Circuits kzbin.info/aero/PL2Ea5r9gxUUfm4SACOSOZigCeSxxC5xaO

[@channelI748]

It's neat but you left no slack at all. If this was an existing installation and at a future date someone wanted to replace it, the cable would probably have to be replaced.

[@andysims4906]

That knife looks to bulky for the job. I find it easier to use a knife and slide it down against the earth wire to strip the cable .

[@GSHElectrical]

Thanks for your input 👍🏻

[@itaintrocketscience]

I’m an American electrician. No offense but, you British certainly make mountains out of mole hills. Your way is arguably a touch safer but its incredibly inconvenient to run the line ( the supply from the breaker) to a ceiling.

[@GSHElectrical]

Great user name 👍🏻

[@itaintrocketscience]

@@GSHElectrical I wasn’t suggesting that your way is difficult. I’m suggesting that your wiring methods turn something simple into a rube goldberg machine. So yeah, it ain’t rocket science

[@dfjsorbys]

3 plate lighting at the pendant is absolute shite!!!

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Why can’t anyone talk on you tube without lip smacking is it really that bloody hard jesus