A DIYers point of view. You can shoot me down from a regulatory compliance point of view but I hope you'll think this makes sense from a practical one.
The three wires look two core to me. I'd guess that they go to lampholders of a sort that is symmetrical like a GU10. You can buy a 'bare' lampholder like the ones in my photo and they come with two white leads. There's no reason why one lead and not the other should be the live one, and in a proper fitting one of each pair would be arbitrarily designated live and connect to a connection box labelled L N and E.
So from a regulatory point of view this is presumably not right. But from a practical point of view, and what I'd do if I'd bought one, is to check the wiring is as I've said and if so shorten the three leads and connect them and the earth lead to a suitable junction box with the cores labelled, which might then need to be fixed to the body of the fitting. Whether a professional electrician would be right to do this I don't know but I'd consider the resulting fitting would be fully equivalent to a proper one. Shoot me down if I'm wrong.
It would be a good idea to inspect and test it first! I've bought Chinese equipment with live and neutral specified, but with the switch in the neutral not the live side.
The three wires look two core to me. I'd guess that they go to lampholders of a sort that is symmetrical like a GU10. You can buy a 'bare' lampholder like the ones in my photo and they come with two white leads. There's no reason why one lead and not the other should be the live one, and in a proper fitting one of each pair would be arbitrarily designated live and connect to a connection box labelled L N and E.
So from a regulatory point of view this is presumably not right. But from a practical point of view, and what I'd do if I'd bought one, is to check the wiring is as I've said and if so shorten the three leads and connect them and the earth lead to a suitable junction box with the cores labelled, which might then need to be fixed to the body of the fitting. Whether a professional electrician would be right to do this I don't know but I'd consider the resulting fitting would be fully equivalent to a proper one. Shoot me down if I'm wrong.
It would be a good idea to inspect and test it first! I've bought Chinese equipment with live and neutral specified, but with the switch in the neutral not the live side.
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