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wrote:

Jeeziz, a simple question about wiring conventions and the Safety
Nazis
are on you.. if only I was as serenely competent as you Jerry and as
concerned for the poor idiots around me who don't know their AC from
their DC.

I have a willingness to learn and a willingness to ask people who
might
know, like those on this group. I'm sorry if this seems ill-advised
or
inept to you.

If your lamp is non metal - and non conductive, just in case your
building it from carbon nanotubes - then you dont need any earth
connection. Its perfectly safe to cut the earth off and put the plastic
bulbholder onto 2 cores of the 3 core.

If a pat tester cant figure out the bleedin obvious thats his problem,
and not a danger anyway. Not all replies turn out to be accurate.

A lamp's flex should have a cordgrip to stop bare wires getting pulled
out, and the cordgrips in bulb holders are sometimes almost useless. If
your bulbholder has a less than perfect clamping of the whole of the
flex, thats both inner and outer layers, then it is wise to add a
little cordgrippage in the lamp base. The simplest way is to knot the
flex on the inside of the flex entry hole, so it cant get pulled out.
This is enough in this case because the bulbholder itself will prevent
the wires being moved about in the holder, so between the 2 youve got
whats needed.

NT