I've pretty much decided I've reached the end of my limited knowledge and need an electrician...
But I'm still curious to see how this work.
I took down a ceiling light, forgot to take a picture of how it was wired and messed it up, I now have three rooms without light's
When I took it down there were four cables running into the rose.
What I have is:
A neutral wire (marked with tape) so I assume that's the switch cable.
5 red wires (two if these goes to the switch)
3 neutral wires
5 earth wires
Unless someone on here can tell me it's a simple job, like a said I'll get an electrician in. But again as I said I'm just curios to know how it all works.
Any suggestions much appreciated.
Many thanks
Mark
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I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
Basically you put all the lives (red wires ) together into one terminal of the rose. The unmarked neutrals (black wires) go together into another. The marked neutral, which you’ve correctly said is your switch wire, goes into a third, on its own. All the earths go together into another. Your lamp holder is then fed from the neutrals and the switch wire. It’s not a difficult job.
No need to pay a Spark....we can work this out.
Are you sure 2 reds go to the switch?....and are those 2 reds inside one grey cable?
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Cheer @spark240 @boogieman @Funkfingers for the advice - maybe this is a bit clearer?
Here's a couple more pics - just a standard switch in the room.
Cheers
Mark
Leave that twin cable out for now ( and see art doesn't work)..
The other 2 red / Black are the L&N in and out, so put the 2 reds in a same terminal, and the 2 backs in the Neutral terminal .
The twin red is your switch as you know, so 1 of this reds goes in with the other 2 ( in spare terminal ) this will send alive down to your switch, the return red ( the switch wire) then goes into the Live terminal i the rose, this will connect to the Brown of your lamp.
Do that first.
Just one light in the room yes ?
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I'll give it a go.
Tried your suggestion but no joy.
Put all earth wires in one junction box.
Put the two neutral wires in one junction box - the added the neutral of the light fitting to those two.
Put the two live wires into one junction box.
The I linked one of the switch wires to the light. And the other switch wire to the other live wires. (I did this both ways)
No power to the light (or any of the hall lights)
I did the current tester on the wires while I had the power on and the only red wire with power is the one that has the black wire with tape on it as its partner. (pic attached)
I'm sure you've got better things to do with your Sunday than answer my questions so feel free to ignore this!
Cheers
Mark
incase its simpler this is what I have
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Ok....so ...Im not happy with this but.....put the red you know to be live in with the other 2 in the spare terminal, and put the taped black in with the neutrals....I assume you do you have MCB;s in the fuseboard and not off fusewrie...as this may just ....
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You would need to put all reds in a connector block ...apart from one of the reds from the switch which is the cable with the 2 reds in
Put all the blacks together a connector on there own
All the earths together on there own
And the red from the switch...the one left on its own in it's own connector
The lampholder put the brown to the single red and the blue to the neutrals..that's the blacks
Its possible the switch might be upside down ...off it is turn the switch the other way on
Job’s a good’un.
Got it sorted. The wire with the tape on it threw me, most forums say thats how you mark the switch live wire... guess the guy who did mine had other ideas.
As you all said I this is how I got it working.
Cheers
Mark
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You did better than me on my last attempt - to the best of my knowledge I wired everything up correctly (but as you'll see, clearly not) having (thought I had) noted where everything went, but when I turned the light on it blew everything in the house.
As it was 9pm and I was in the dark I called out an emergency sparky who replaced a huge fuse in the meter box (I didn't even know there was one in there) and wired my light up correctly.