Jusnel 6th Gear June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 (edited) To any one who knows about electricity. I want to change my LED ceiling light. So bought a new one. Powerpac brand. 2nd pic I opened up my old ceiling LED light and realised the wires are "built in" into the LED lamp. See pic. Can see that the light is burnt. Hence got to change. How do I remove the wires from the old light SAFELY? Edited June 17, 2020 by Jusnel ↡ Advertisement 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watwheels Supersonic June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 (edited) Before you do anything, switch off the CB for this light. Go play around with the main CB. Or just off the main CB. Cut away the shrink wrap(the white rubbery thing with numbers on it, it's just a layer of protective wrap) near the blue and red wire end. Look for screw to release the wires. Use a Philips head screwdriver or a test pen. Edited June 17, 2020 by Watwheels 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrecord Supersonic June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 too bad i can't advise cos i dunno. but i'm gonna camp here to wait for experts... cos i also have questions on changing LED lights 😁 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusnel 6th Gear June 17, 2020 Author Share June 17, 2020 Can I just cut off the wires and connect to the new LED light? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusnel 6th Gear June 17, 2020 Author Share June 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, Watwheels said: Before you do anything, switch off the CB for this light. Go play around with the main CB. Cut away the shrink wrap(the white rubbery thing). Look for screw to release the wires. Use a Philips head screwdriver or a test pen. ok, good advice. i go look at the CB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strat 6th Gear June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 10 minutes ago, Jusnel said: Can I just cut off the wires and connect to the new LED light? yes, you can. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusnel 6th Gear June 17, 2020 Author Share June 17, 2020 12 minutes ago, Watwheels said: Before you do anything, switch off the CB for this light. Go play around with the main CB. Or just off the main CB. Cut away the shrink wrap(the white rubbery thing with numbers on it, it's just a layer of protective wrap) near the blue and red wire end. Look for screw to release the wires. Use a Philips head screwdriver or a test pen. ok, i cut off the shrink wrap. The wires seems welded onto the board. can i cut them off? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watwheels Supersonic June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Jusnel said: ok, i cut off the shrink wrap. The wires seems welded onto the board. can i cut them off? Yes. Can cut. Then strip off 0.5 to 1cm of the wire insulation. You are good to connect to the new light. Red to red, blue to blue. Then turn back on the CB. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kb27 Supersonic June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 Yes, disconnect the miniature circuit breaker first by pushing it down. If it's wired as standard, it should be a 6A (for lights) MCB. If it was wired to power socket, then the MCB will probably be 25A. You need to check which one. To be safer, just shut down the main ELCB or RCCB. But your whole house will be without power, until you push it back on. Now brown wire is LIVE. Blue is neutral. Assuming it's wired correctly, otherwise big problem. You can probe with a test pen, it should light up when there's electricity. Which means you have to ascertain by probing the brown wire first with electricity (all CB) on. You have to be very careful here, since you're probably standing on a chair or ladder. You don't want to hold the wire and fall over. Now, if you've confirm the brown wire is indeed LIVE, shut down electricity and cut both wire individually, with a nipper. Expose the copper wires end by peeling away about 1 cm of plastic insulator. Remove the old LED. Connect to the new LED module brown wire to brown wire, blue to blue. This looks like a push and release clip, you may test it first by using spare wire somewhere. The copper wire should be fully inserted into the plastic clip and NOT be exposed. And obviously make sure the new LED is for 220~240AV and not 12VDC or anything else. This should be printed on the label. Put back everything, and test the light with fingers-crossed. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobayashiGT Internal Moderator June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 43 minutes ago, Jusnel said: To any one who knows about electricity. I want to change my LED ceiling light. So bought a new one. Powerpac brand. 2nd pic I opened up my old ceiling LED light and realised the wires are "built in" into the LED lamp. See pic. Can see that the light is burnt. Hence got to change. How do I remove the wires from the old light SAFELY? That's not built in lah. that's just wrapped with a heat shrink wrapper. You need to cut both your new and old wire. Cuz the new one provide you with the clip unless you wanna modify your ceiling wire to the clip also then can poke. if not can just cut both and stick tgt. The LED no relay one meh? we running 230V leh. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kb27 Supersonic June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 Another issue might be, does the mounting holes matched ? Or you have to start drilling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusnel 6th Gear June 17, 2020 Author Share June 17, 2020 (edited) ok. i managed to do it successfully. cut wires off and connect to the new one. it's nice and bright! 36W. @kobayashiGTI not sure of the relay. Nowadays, the LED lights are like this. Thanks @Watwheels Edited June 17, 2020 by Jusnel 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusnel 6th Gear June 17, 2020 Author Share June 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Kb27 said: Another issue might be, does the mounting holes matched ? Or you have to start drilling. stick by magnets. As long as the ceiling base is metal, magnets will do. Another option is use double side tape. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volvobrick Supersonic June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 8 minutes ago, kobayashiGT said: That's not built in lah. that's just wrapped with a heat shrink wrapper. You need to cut both your new and old wire. Cuz the new one provide you with the clip unless you wanna modify your ceiling wire to the clip also then can poke. if not can just cut both and stick tgt. The LED no relay one meh? we running 230V leh. 230V. All good! New clip looks like spring loaded - so just insert the ceiling wires, good to go. Ps. Make sure someone else is around in case things go wrong. And he/she knows what to do. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusnel 6th Gear June 17, 2020 Author Share June 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Volvobrick said: 230V. All good! New clip looks like spring loaded - so just insert the ceiling wires, good to go. Ps. Make sure someone else is around in case things go wrong. And he/she knows what to do. this is the one i bought. Local brand shld be trusted. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobayashiGT Internal Moderator June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 12 minutes ago, Volvobrick said: 230V. All good! New clip looks like spring loaded - so just insert the ceiling wires, good to go. Ps. Make sure someone else is around in case things go wrong. And he/she knows what to do. Like that you also can see. hahahah. I cannot see anything man! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobayashiGT Internal Moderator June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 16 minutes ago, Jusnel said: ok. i managed to do it successfully. cut wires off and connect to the new one. it's nice and bright! 36W. @kobayashiGTI not sure of the relay. Nowadays, the LED lights are like this. Thanks @Watwheels My room the LED is the old kind so have the relay. hahaha. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheesey74 6th Gear June 17, 2020 Share June 17, 2020 Oh man.. i can feel all the love in mcf, so many forumners chipping in to help n advise 😍... ↡ Advertisement 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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