How to build a chandelier?

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When buying a new chandelier, the question often arises,how to assemble it. After all, in fact, it is a do-it-yourself set. In the store, the seller hands the box, where all parts of the future chandelier are neatly stacked and will have to make efforts to make this beautiful piece of furniture take its rightful place. To facilitate the task, we decided to offer you a ready-made instruction that will help you to assemble an ordinary Chinese chandelier yourself, without recourse to specialists.

Before you collect the chandelier, you need to prepare tools.

Tools for work

knife building;
screwdriver;
spanner wrench.

Step-by-step assembly of the chandelier

The box with the purchased chandelier is carefully loosened from the packing tape, using a construction knife.
All parts, including small ones (bolts, nuts andother parts), lay out in front of you. It is important to check the completeness, because if in the process it turns out that something is missing, the work will have to be interrupted, and storing the unfinished chandelier is more difficult than well-packed chandelier.
Each part of the future chandelier should be extracted fromindividual packaging, with the exception of plafonds and remote control (if you bought a chandelier with a remote control). They will be needed at the very end of the assembly, so to avoid damaging them, they should be left packed.
At the next stage, the horns,there may be different numbers. There are single-hand chandeliers, two-lobed, trehrozhkovye, etc. The technology of attachment is the same. It is necessary to disassemble the case by unscrewing the decorative nut and removing the protective cover from it. The horn is inserted into the hole in the body and fixed with a nut and washer. The same is repeated with each horn.
After all the horns are installed on theplace, you should check their symmetry with respect to the central horn, and then tighten the fixing nuts using a wrench. If this is not done, then later the symmetry may be disturbed, since the horns can move.
Now the turn of electrical wires has come. At this stage, we will not connect them, but only group them. Divide the wires into groups by the color. If it is planned not to have a single switch but a double one, then do not two, but three groups, dividing the number of wires in one of them in the required ratio. For example, in your chandelier there are two colors: blue and brown. Separate the brown wires in one group, and blue divide either 3: 1 (we get when switching on one switch - 3 lights, when you turn on the other - 1, and when you turn on both - all 4). If the blue wires are divided 2: 2, accordingly, when each switch is pressed, two light bulbs will work, and if both are switched on, all will be triggered. The circuit may differ depending on the number of bulbs in the chandelier.
Splitting the wires into groups, they should be connectedbetween each other and with the central wires (brown - with the first, blue - with the second), with the help of a special connector (it comes complete with a chandelier). The ends of the wires are stripped from the insulation, bare for 1-2 cm, twisted together, and then the screw is screwed in clockwise to protect the place of twisting.
The cover of the case, taken at the beginning of the work, is returned to its place and fixed with a decorative nut.
To the top of the chandelier attach an outlet, which disguises the place of attachment of the lighting device to the ceiling.