Easy for you but confusing for me

[handyhelper]

Hi

I have just moved into a new build house and I want to put a light on the front of the house, the builders left a grey box attached with the wires inside for me,....making it easy for me

Inside there is a 4 core cable but the light I brought from Wicks has only 3 wires, Live,neutral & earth.

the wires inside the box are brown, black (with brown sleeve on) grey and earth, so I wired up my wires from the light as follows:

brown to brown
earth to earth
blue to grey
and I left the black with the brown sleeve in the plastic block.

so I switched the fusebox rcd back on and the light works......but the switch on the hallway wall wont turn it off, the light stays on permanantly (which I dont want)

where did I go wrong?

 

[freeonboard]

The switched live is the one you need to connect the brown cable from the light to...i.e. the black +brown sleeved cable

 

[streetlighter]

connect the black wire with the brown sleeve on to the brown ( live ) of the fitting, this is the switch wire.
At the moment there is a permanent live feed to the fitting because you have connected to the brown core.
Quite common to use a 3 core and earth to feed an outside light if its a PIR type with a manual switched overide.

 

[Taylortwocities]

So, if its wired properly.

The black with the brown sleeve goes to the brown on the fitting.
The grey goes to the blue on the fitting
The bron should be terminated in a piece of insulated terminal block (aka choc plock)
connect up earth to the light if there is an earth terminal.

 

[handyhelper]

Thanks for ther replys.

Ill re-do it in the morning and will post my results.

Thanks again

 

[handyhelper]

Perfect!

Thanks all