Replacing a light fitting

Posted by helen mitchell, on Wed 15 Nov 2017 11:02pm

I have twin red wire and 2single black wires coming from the ceiling and a fitting with 3comnector blocks I have tried to wire up the same as the old one with both reds in live and the other two in neutral but my electric keeps tripping where am I going wrong

Daniel John

Wed 29 Nov 2017 08:14pm

Your 2 reds are your permanent live feeds, 1 black is your switch live coming from the switch so you need to put that in the live in the light and the other black in the neutral, block to 2 reds

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Adam Raye

Fri 24 Nov 2017 12:40am

Hire an electrician would be the best advice

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Iain Ashmore

Thu 23 Nov 2017 10:31am

One of the black wires should be in the live at the light. From what you have described I also think you may of put the lives in the live to the light not the loop live which is where I would expect them to be.

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