Hello and thanks in advance for any advice.
I have a light in my kitchen that has stopped working, I suspected it was the fitting as a gu10 bulb failed and the ends of the bulb fused/snapped off inside one of the fittings.
so I disconnected the fitting and replaced it with an out of the packet/new ceiling rose as a temp fitting. but this does not work either?
I never mixed up the live switch wire as this was going to the brown on the fitting, the two black wires were together going to the blue - the three red loop wires were separated in a stand alone piece of connecter. which I left alone.
Do the loop wires need to go into the rose centre, or are they ok in the piece of connector as long as the go together? is this why its still not working or do I need to look at something else?
Nothing has changed in the house wiring up to this point - the light fitting stopped working, as I said a assumed it was the cheap gu10 that has damaged the fitting.
I don't have a multi meter, just a basic live wire tester. Both light switches and the wires to the ceiling all show power to them. Both switches work the secondary lights off them - living room and stairs with no issues.
I'm happy to get an electrician in if this goes beyond my basic understanding, but I could do without the cost. I'm hoping that its my first simple question about the rose is the issue, but I was sure that the loop wires don't do anything in the rose apart from be connected together?
thanks again.
I have a light in my kitchen that has stopped working, I suspected it was the fitting as a gu10 bulb failed and the ends of the bulb fused/snapped off inside one of the fittings.
so I disconnected the fitting and replaced it with an out of the packet/new ceiling rose as a temp fitting. but this does not work either?
I never mixed up the live switch wire as this was going to the brown on the fitting, the two black wires were together going to the blue - the three red loop wires were separated in a stand alone piece of connecter. which I left alone.
Do the loop wires need to go into the rose centre, or are they ok in the piece of connector as long as the go together? is this why its still not working or do I need to look at something else?
Nothing has changed in the house wiring up to this point - the light fitting stopped working, as I said a assumed it was the cheap gu10 that has damaged the fitting.
I don't have a multi meter, just a basic live wire tester. Both light switches and the wires to the ceiling all show power to them. Both switches work the secondary lights off them - living room and stairs with no issues.
I'm happy to get an electrician in if this goes beyond my basic understanding, but I could do without the cost. I'm hoping that its my first simple question about the rose is the issue, but I was sure that the loop wires don't do anything in the rose apart from be connected together?
thanks again.