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I have an 18-bulb chandelier from Globe Electric. I need to connect 19 wires together twice inside this lamp.
I've bundled the wires into 4 sets of 9 using washers and electrical tape. The instructions are lacking. See photos. Besides "carefully", how do I get this all together?
The wires for the light fixture get inserted under the screws directly opposing the existing wires.
Brown is your "hot" wire. The energized conductor. Blue is your common wire. The screwshell of your light fixture should connect to the blue and the center tab of the screwshell gets connected to the brown. Leave the two brown wires connected together.
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Wow that is a lot of connections for a light. I am surprised the MFG did not send something as that is too many for wire nuts unless you do several sets and connect them together. I would use a terminal block maybe a little bigger than this but I use this in control panels that are tight on space. I use jumper wires on 1 side then use the other for the connections. They are finger safe but I would put a layer of tape over the screws in this case. 2 tan and red 3M wire nuts connected with a jumper would be safe if that is 14awg wire but that is really pushing the limits.