What should I connect the light blue wire to?
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05-07-06, 06:49 AM
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What should I connect the light blue wire to?
I purchased a light fixture from Ikea that has 3 wires coming out of the white electrical cord on the light fixture (one black, one white and one LIGHT BLUE) + 1 green/yellow ground wire. I connected the white wall wire to white fixture wire, black wall wire to black fixture wire, but what do I do with the light blue wire? There is no wire coming out of the wall to connect it to. Can I just cap it off and connect it to nothing?
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05-07-06, 08:51 AM
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It is possible this was intended for use in a ceiling fan, where the fan uses the black wire and the light uses the blue wire. Can you look deeper and see where the wires connect inside the fixture. This may give a good insight as to whether or not you can cap it off or use it and cap off the black. Let us know where it goes.
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05-07-06, 10:13 AM
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I tried capping off the blue wire
I connected the white to white, black to black and capped off the blue. The light worked perfectly. Later, however, I went back to turn on the light switch and it wouldn't turn on. Could this have anything to do with the capped blue wire?
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05-07-06, 12:35 PM
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05-07-06, 12:57 PM
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From your pix, the blue wire is inconsequential, unlessi it has a remote control function. Check all your connections and try it again with the blue wire capped. So no installation instructions, huh?
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05-07-06, 01:14 PM
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OK, Ikea sells European and US products, and the extra wire is probably for EU wiring which is 220v, and is not used in the US. Not 100%, but after googling several sites, that seems to be the concensus.
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05-07-06, 05:46 PM
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if you look at the wire the bleu is genrally used as netrual in european area but if it came with insturction some lumiaires do have dual voltage connection for some reason but i will be more glad if you have photo of the whole lumiaire so i can get the idea more clear and type of bulb it is using like low voltage or line voltage bulb type etc etc
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Merci, Marc
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Merci, Marc
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05-07-06, 06:26 PM
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I don't know, Joed, they said there was a green/yellow striped wire, also, so I figured that was the grounding wire, although this wire does look like a puky green-blue, or bleu in french. The EU configuration seems to be the one, but not sure.
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05-08-06, 08:28 PM
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looks like the answer is: cap the blue wire
So I capped the blue wire (as I had originally had it installed before wondering why it had stopped working) and it works again. I think that the way I had it connected wasn't as tight/secure as it is now, so that's why it's working now. Thanks for all the feedback though, as I've come to realize that the blue wire is probably for the European market.
