How To Repair A Crystal Chandelier With Your Own Hands

2023 Author: Philip Bishop | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 22:24

• Break elimination method
• How to repair a lighting fixture with your own hands
• Checking the wiring diagram
• Conclusion

The situation when you come home, you turn on the lights, and in response, darkness occurs quite often. We press the power button, it becomes clear that something has broken inside the lighting system. Perhaps the lamp has burned out, the contacts are broken, the chandelier is broken. It is realistic to determine at first glance, only the visible break of the incandescent lamp itself, by looking at it at light. We go by the method of elimination, change the light bulb, darkness.

Most likely a breakdown inside. How to repair a crystal chandelier is not yet clear, but sometimes it is simply necessary to know it. Having analyzed the situation, we are looking for a lantern, and in the daytime, an instrument. We begin the repair process.

Break elimination method

It is possible that the breakdown did not occur in the chandelier itself, but before it, in the chain. The switch itself may fail, the wire supplying electricity may burn out. You need to check the entire circuit - from the safety relay in the distribution board to the contacts in the cartridge.

1. You should start with a visual inspection. Inspect the automatic relay with the lever down (disabled), try to turn it on. It reacts to short circuits in the circuit. If it is impossible to put it in the on position, then this means that the circuit is still closed.
2. Normal fixation of the relay of the machine in the upper position indicates that there is no short circuit at the moment. Perhaps it appears during the operation of the device. Disconnect the relay, change the lighting element in the chandelier and turn on the whole circuit again - from the machine to the switch. If electricity does not come in, we check further, remembering to turn off the relay before working with the devices.

3. After checking the devices on the distribution board, go to the switch. Modern switches are usually backlit, see if it's lit. If there is no indication or it is flashing, you will have to revise there too.

   

Do not try to lock the safety relay in the up position (on) as this is dangerous. Possible fire of electrical wiring at the point of short circuit.

• Remove the keys using a screwdriver with an insulated handle.

  

• Loosen the fastening screws, remove the switch and inspect the contacts for breaks, wire burnouts.

Before you repair a crystal chandelier, check if it can have several lighting groups, then put a double switch in two groups, for example, one lamp plus two. We check in order. Visually intact, we mount it back, if not, we carry out repairs

How to repair a lighting fixture with your own hands

After examining the circuit and carrying out some revision work in the switchboard, switch, we are trying to figure out how to repair the chandelier itself.

For example, a three-arm version of a chandelier with crystal elements. Before repairing the chandelier, prepare:

• thin screwdriver with a Phillips tip;
• flat screwdriver;
• tester;
• insulating tape;
• soldering iron with a set where rosin and tin are present
• a small piece of sandpaper;
• knife;
• the three-arm chandelier circuit will also not interfere with the repair.

It is better to start repairing the chandelier holder from the place where the lighting lamps are screwed in.

The cartridge consists of several parts:

1. A 40 mm threaded tube where the lighting element is screwed in.

   

2. Porcelain insert with contact group.
3. Housing with internal seat for group and external thread for tube.

It is logical to start repairing a chandelier with your own hands with them, where contacts often burn out, with loose contact of the base with the contact group. The repair of the chandelier cartridge is carried out in two stages, first, all the crystal decorations are removed, the lamps are unscrewed, and then the repair of the cartridge begins.

Let's analyze everything to the screw:

1. Finding a cartridge malfunction is easy. Unscrew the top of the lamp socket. Do this on all the arms of the chandelier at once. Remove crystal jewelry.
2. Check the integrity of all threads for points from short circuits. If there is, remove with fine (grit 200) sandpaper.

3. Examine the contact group of the cartridge, consisting of antennae. Remove the presence of carbon with a knife, sandpaper, if any.

   

4. Use a flat-end screwdriver to pry the ceramic sleeve out of the chuck body. If it is collapsible. Check the wires, they should be well tightened with the screws, from the back of the ceramic. The dark color of the contacts or screws indicates that the contact was weak, tighten the screws holding the wires. Now you can collect.
5. We turn on the relay machine, switch. We take the indicator, set it to check the voltage (220 V), check the “phase” and “zero” electricity supply by touching the contacts inside the cartridge, threads and mustaches. The indicator will show if there is electricity. We have finished with the cartridges, when electricity comes in, the indicator will react. If not, go to the junction box of the chandelier or its remote control.

Checking the wiring diagram

A simple lighting fixture does not require much knowledge; another thing is repairing a manually controlled chandelier. In the usual three-arm chandelier scheme, you will have three wires coming out of the ceiling. Two wires are phase, one is blue zero.

First, deal with the wires. Is there a cliff in the line. It's easy to do. The scheme of work as before:

1. We check the contacts in the group, on the board, if any, or in twists, exposing the wires.
2. Determine which wires go to specific lamps. The insulating tape must be removed in this case.
3. There is a break in the contact, we eliminate it, we conduct insulation.

Everything should work.

Do not forget to turn off the power supply when working with a soldering iron.

Repairing a chandelier with a control panel takes a little more time:

1. We turn off the power supply.
2. We check the wires for integrity. Before you repair a chandelier with a remote control, you need to check the two wires left in the place of the old rocker switch, sometimes the connection is oxidized. Then we take a soldering iron, tin and rosin and solder the contact.
3. You can leave the switch in its old place if it is in the on position. It all depends on the type of remote device. To repair a chandelier with a remote control, you need one tester and a screwdriver. Sometimes, to repair a crystal chandelier, it must be removed completely. We need access to the controller.
4. Using the attached pinout diagram, conduct a thorough inspection of the regulator itself. Manufacturers often indicate the wiring diagram for the network and the chandelier directly on the controller.
5. In the event of a break, we eliminate and try to connect through the circuit.

Everything should work, we have eliminated possible malfunctions along the circuit from the shield to the block.

Identifying a malfunction of the control lighting unit cannot be visually determined; you will have to replace the controller with a new one. It is he who accepts all commands coming from the console.

Conclusion

As you can see, there is nothing difficult in repairing a chandelier, with your own hands, you can do it without problems. We considered almost all possible ways to eliminate breakdowns, minor malfunctions can cause a lot of trouble. The most common of them are contact breakage, burnout at the junction of the device and relay, cartridge, switch. The battery of the control panel power supply can be trite.

Perform all work with a special insulated tool, use rubber gloves.

Having carried out simple work, while saving the family budget, you will gain invaluable experience. Only sometimes it is worth calling the service to invite a master, when you simply do not have an instrument at an inopportune moment, holiday or anniversary.

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