How To Wire A Lamp With Multiple Bulbs
Screw all wires in place correctly.
How to wire a lamp with multiple bulbs. Neutral wire to be connected the same way to the other terminal in each. Live wire out of same terminal in lampholder 2 in to lampholder 3. Click the link below https youtu be 5. Use seperate two core cable for the seperate lamps and feed down to the base.
Here you join all live wires from the lamp to the live wire of the 3 core cable going to the plug switch. Table lamps or floor lamps often have two or more bulb sockets and rewiring these offers some different challenges than wiring a single bulb lamp not only is there the main plug in lamp cord feeding up through the base of lamp but somewhere within the body of the lamp this main cord is connected to secondary cords running to each of the sockets. In this video i walk you through all the steps necessary to re wire and refinish a 1950s 3 light floor lamp. I know it s not the best as this was my first time recording a tutorial so be nice.
And so on until all 10 are connected. Also watch out simulation of series connection of 2 bulbs on multisim with exact values of voltage current watts. A single electrical feed can be used to power more than one electrical device including light bulbs. If you had an existing fitting or not you now need to screw all wires into the correct terminal blocks on your new light fitting.
I am linking the bulbs as follows live wire in to one terminal of lampholder 1. Same story for the neutral ones. Centre contact for screw fittings is always live the screw fitting neutral. Each lamp needs two wires to work live and neutral.
Live wire out of same terminal in lampholder 1 to terminal in lampholder 2.