16+ How To Wire A Lamp With Multiple Bulbs
Pics. Here you join all live wires from the lamp to the live wire of the 3 core cable going to the plug/switch. Each lamp cord is made of 2 wires stuck together:
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Individual ballast wires each connect to a lampholder on one side of each tube. A daisy chain can be any number of sockets as long as you keep to the capacity of the wire used. As each lamp or bulb is connected between line l and neutral n separately, if one of the light bulb gets faulty, the rest of the circuit will work smoothly as shown in fig below.
Take a few minutes to properly secure your connections with wire nuts.
The top socket a, holds a standard incandescent bulb. But the installation won't be nearly as seamless. Such a circuit is a basic electrical configuration and is referred to as wiring in parallel. The break in the wire, failure or removal of any single lamp will break the circuit and cause all of the others to.
