Straight joint
Two lengths in line. The jointer pushes into the end of each length and the run continues as one.
EN-CE-Jointer Module
CIANA Elance' 6mm · Installation guide
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Installation guide
CIANA Elance' 6mm, installed.
The 26 × 6mm magnetic track, from a bare ceiling to a lit luminaire, in four stages. Written for the electrician on site: print it and take it up the ladder.
Fitting the deeper CIANA 48V track instead? That system goes together differently and has its own guide.
Watch it go together
Eighty seconds, no commentary: the channel goes up, the connectors go in, the luminaires push on. Worth watching once before the first run.
The film has music but no commentary — nothing is missed with the sound off.
Before you start
Eleven rules. Every one of them is a call-back avoided.
- Install to local and national electrical regulations, and only by a licensed electrician who knows how the system goes together.
- Switch off at the breaker before touching the track, the supply or a luminaire.
- Never solder a connecting wire. Make every mains connection inside a proper junction box.
- Fix the track to a non-conductive surface, in a dry interior room only.
- Do not lay insulation over the track or over any luminaire.
- Operate between −20°C and +40°C ambient.
- Check the supply voltage against the label on the power supply before connecting it.
- Fit nothing to a luminaire that did not come in its box.
- Keep the conductors of this system clear of every other lighting system. They must never touch.
- Guard against short circuit and overload: add up the luminaire wattages on the run and stay within the supply rating.
- The LED light source is not user-replaceable. It is replaced by Enlighten Pro or an authorised agent.
The parts
Everything a run is built from, in the order it goes up. Codes are the price-list codes.
| Part | Code | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Track channel | EN-CETS · 1m / 2m / 3m | 26 × 6mm section, black. Surface-mounted. Cut lengths are listed per metre; longer runs are joined. |
| Mounting kit | EN-CE-Mounting Kit | Nine sets of positioning plugs, screws and screw-hole covers. One kit per 3m of track, mandatory. |
| Jointer module | EN-CE-Jointer Module | Joins two lengths in line and carries the current across the joint. |
| Curved corner | EN-CE-Curved Corner | Turns the run through 90° in the plane of the ceiling, powered through. |
| Tee connector | EN-CE-Tee Connector | Branches a third leg off a straight run, powered into all three. |
| Cross connector | EN-CE-Cross Connector | Four legs from one point, for a grid across a ceiling. |
| Vertical corner | EN-CE-Vertical Corner | Turns a ceiling run down onto a wall run, powered through. |
| Input module | EN-CE-Input Module | Brings 48V into the track from a supply above the ceiling. |
| Wire box | EN-CE-Wire Box | Clips over the track to hide the supply lead where it enters. Cosmetic — it is not a junction box. |
| End plug | Comes with the track | Closes the open end of a run. Fitted with a screw and a cover, like every other fixing. |
| Power supply | EN-CE48VPS · 100W / 200W | 48V output, sized to the run. See stage 3 for where it goes. |
Stage 1 of 4
Fix the track
The track is screwed to the ceiling through its own centre channel, three fixings to the metre, and every screw head disappears under a cover.
01
Check the fittings
For each length: the track itself, plus positioning plugs, screws and screw-hole covers from the mounting kit. Three of each per metre.
02
Set out the run
Mark the ceiling from the lighting layout. Offer the track up on the line, push a positioning plug into the first fixing hole, drive the screw, then press the cover over the screw head.
03
Screw every hole
The channel has three fixing holes in every metre. Fix all of them: the track is only secure once the whole length is drawn tight to the ceiling.
04
Close the end
At the open end of the run, fit the end plug, screw it and cover the screw. The track is ready for its joints and its power.
Stage 2 of 4
Join the lengths
Every joint is mechanical and electrical at once: the connector pushes into both lengths and carries the 48V across. Five joints cover any layout.
Corner joint
A 90° turn in the plane of the ceiling, powered through the corner. The listed part is the curved version; the square corner drawn here is available on the enquiry.
EN-CE-Curved Corner
Tee joint
A branch off a straight run. The tee carries power into all three legs.
EN-CE-Tee Connector
Cross joint
Four legs from one point, for a grid across a ceiling.
EN-CE-Cross Connector
Vertical corner
A ceiling run turning down onto a wall run, powered through the corner.
EN-CE-Vertical Corner
Ceiling to wall
Where the vertical corner goes: the run leaves the ceiling line and continues down the wall as the same circuit.
LayoutEvery connector is fitted the same way: push it fully into one length, then push the next length onto it. Send us the layout and we will list the connectors the run needs.
Stage 3 of 4
Bring in power
Mains never reaches the track. It is converted to 48V first, either by a supply that sits in the track or by one above the ceiling feeding an input module. Check the input range on the supply's own label before you connect it.
Option A
Supply in the track
The EN-CE48VPS supply is built to sit in the track channel. Bring the mains lead — three cores, line, neutral and earth — through the ceiling, join all three in a junction box above the ceiling, then push the supply up into the track exactly as you would a luminaire. It puts 48V onto the copper strips from where it sits. The wire box hides the lead where it enters the track.
Listed at 100W and 200W. Add up every luminaire on the run and choose the rating above that figure.
Option B
Supply above the ceiling
Mount a 48V supply in the ceiling void and run its output down to the EN-CE-Input Module, which clips into the end of the track. From there the copper strips carry 48V to every luminaire on the run.
The listed match is the EN-SMPS04 48V driver. Size it the same way: total luminaire wattage, then the rating above it.
One supply feeds one run. A run that is joined through corners and jointers is still one run; a second, separate track is a second supply.
Stage 4 of 4
Mount the luminaires
No tools. Push, press, done. The luminaire lights the moment its contacts meet the copper strips, so you know it is seated before you lock it.
01
Push
Offer the luminaire up to the track and push it home so the copper contacts on its back meet the copper strips in the channel. It lights as soon as they touch.
02
Press
With the luminaire lit, press the catch at each end inwards. They lock the body to the track so it cannot be knocked out or slide.
03
Seated
Flush in the channel, locked and lit. To reposition it, release both catches, slide, and lock again.
Every luminaire in the Elance' range mounts the same way.
Spot Light
EN-CETL · 7 / 12 / 18W
Laser Light
EN-CELL · 6 / 12 / 18W
Linear Light
EN-CELN · 10 / 20 / 30W
Rotatable Laser Blade Spotlight
EN-CELLR
Rotatable Laser Blade Flood Light
EN-CELLRD
Spot CL
EN-CECL · 10W · lens optics
Spot CD
EN-CECD · 10W · diffuser
Cylinder Pendant
EN-CECY1 · 12W
Cylinder Spotlight with Honeycomb
EN-CECY-01
Round Movable Wall Washer
EN-CE-RWW
360° Glowing Linear Tube
EN-CETB
360° Glowing Flexible NeoFlex
EN-CENF
Pendant Globe
EN-CECP-01
Sonic Beam speaker
EN-SONIC-BEAM · Elance' mount
The full range
Every code, on one pageIf something is dark
Three checks, in the order they usually turn out to be the answer.
One luminaire does not light
It is not pushed fully home. Release the catches, take it off, and push it up again until it lights; only then press the catches in.
Everything after a joint is dark
The jointer or corner is not seated in both lengths. Check that the connector has pushed fully into each track end; the joint is what carries the 48V across.
The whole run is dark
Start at the supply. Check the mains side at the junction box, that the supply or input module is seated in the track, and that the total luminaire wattage on the run is within the supply's rating.
Still dark? Send us a photo of the run and the supply and we will work it through with you on WhatsApp.
Planning a run?
Send the ceiling plan and we will come back with the track lengths, the connectors, the supply rating and the luminaires, listed in the order they go up.