duttonbrown
Lighting Designer
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Occupation
- Product Engineer, Lighting Designer
Hi, I'm working to create a fixture with a slim modern shape that uses 4 sockets/lampholders on 4 separate arms. One option for joining several lampholders in a fixture like this is to use a central compartment where I connect the wires inside the compartment with wire nuts, but I don't want to use such compartments because they look bulky. For that reason I have to use different methods to wire within the fixture rods.
I have a quick diagram below. We can only fit so many wires inside a rod, so if we try to wire all the sockets individually (see bottom illustration), there isn't enough room to run the 8 wires back to the supply wire. If we had more room, we could also splice the wires internally, but given the small size/length of the pipes, this is also a challenge. The solution has been to add two wires to each side of a socket so we are able to have fewer wires to the supply (4 instead of 8) as in the top illustration below. Is this an ok practice? See attached picture of how the socket looks when wired.
Thank you. - Thomas
I have a quick diagram below. We can only fit so many wires inside a rod, so if we try to wire all the sockets individually (see bottom illustration), there isn't enough room to run the 8 wires back to the supply wire. If we had more room, we could also splice the wires internally, but given the small size/length of the pipes, this is also a challenge. The solution has been to add two wires to each side of a socket so we are able to have fewer wires to the supply (4 instead of 8) as in the top illustration below. Is this an ok practice? See attached picture of how the socket looks when wired.
Thank you. - Thomas
