Lighting Power Supply Mechanisms
At Penny Engineering, we provide chandelier and lighting power supply mechanisms for winch systems. Our solutions offer secondary support for high-level light fixtures and allow you to isolate or energise the feed during raising and lowering, ensuring both safety and convenience.
Chandelier and Lighting Power Supply Mechanisms for Winches
Maintaining power to a luminaire during maintenance and throughout the raising and lowering process can be managed with our innovative spring-loaded cable reeling drums, which pay out an electrical flex as the lights are lowered and retract it back onto the drum as they are raised. These are useful if you plan on having multiple operating heights for the light fitting.
Alternatively, you can automatically break the electrical feed when lowering your light fixtures with our lock and power feed socket mechanisms, also known as Contact Suspension Units (CSU). Not only do these enable you to isolate power to your lights during maintenance but they also offer a secondary suspension lock that secures them to the ceiling when fully raised.
No item should be suspended by a single rope over the heads of people below. That’s why our CSU lighting power supply solution is designed to be retrofitted to many types of manual single-rope hoists, helping you protect staff, visitors, and assets while ensuring compliance with current lifting regulations.
Our Contact Suspension Units: Key Features
Penny Engineering’s unique lighting power supply mechanisms for winch systems combine robust construction with simple and reliable operation. They can accommodate loads ranging from 5kg to 500kg, with a maximum of 9 electrical contacts, plus earth, feeding the luminaire.
Key features of the CSU include:
- Automatically makes/breaks the electrical feed to lights when raising and lowering
- Engages a secondary mechanical lock for securing high-level assets
- Relieves the winch, pulleys, and wire rope from tension
- Light fitting becomes fully isolated for safe maintenance at low levels
Contact Suspension Unit Options
Load Capacity: 100kg
Electrical Contacts: 2 + earth
Current Rating: 30A
Compatible Rope Diameter: 4mm
Interior use only as standard (exterior upgrade kit available on request)
Load Capacity: 500kg
Electrical Contacts: 9 + earth
Current Rating: 30A
Compatible Rope Diameter: 4-6mm
Interior and exterior use as standard
International Partners
Penny Engineering supplies lifting equipment to over 25 countries around the world. Click through to find out more.
Why Choose Penny Engineering?
Our lighting power supply mechanisms and winch systems are designed to fit seamlessly into your space, ensuring the safe, precise, and compliant raising and lowering of fixtures like chandeliers, artwork, and signage.
We proudly manufacture your winch equipment in our state-of-the-art facility in North Derbyshire. This allows us to apply the highest quality control standards and deliver products you can depend on.
Our dedicated service engineers are strategically located across the UK, ensuring optimal availability for our customers. With our comprehensive maintenance packages, you can be sure your equipment is safe and compliant.
Penny Engineering’s Lighting Power Supply Mechanisms
At Penny Engineering, we’re committed to helping customers implement health and safety best practices by designing and manufacturing lighting power supply mechanisms and winches in conformance with all applicable UK regulations and industry standards.
We offer worldwide installations, project management, and planned maintenance packages customised to your unique needs. With all our operations under one roof, we remain agile and responsive to demand, consistently delivering the highest quality with unrivalled lead times.
From selecting the right product to installation guidance and aftersales support, our expert team is here to assist you at every stage, so you can have peace of mind that your projects are safe and successful. Contact us today for your no-obligation site visit or quotation.
Contact Suspension Unit Options News and Advice
Lighting Power Supply FAQs
We use tested and certified wire rope for our bespoke and “off-the-shelf” winch equipment. The diameter of these will depend on the weight of the suspended item.
Depending on the winch system and your requirements, we can provide the following lighting power supply mechanisms:
- Contact Suspension Unit (CSU): Where the electrical feed to the light fitting is broken when raising or lowering the item until it’s returned to the fully raised position. This also offers a secondary suspension lock to secure the light to the ceiling.
- Spring-Operated Cable Reel: The cable reel pays out the electrical flex to the light fitting as it’s lowered and automatically retracts it when it’s raised. This keeps the chandelier or luminaire energised throughout the raising and lowering process.
Our UK electric winch systems require a domestic, single-phase 230 Volt 50Hz power supply. We require this as a fused spur next to the control box.
For international customers, our winch systems can be built to run on your local domestic or commercial power supply. Please indicate this when enquiring.
Yes! Our lighting power supply mechanisms are designed to be retrofitted to several types of single rope hoists. Please speak to us for guidance.