I've prepared a wired circuit as part of the installation of an exterior light powered by an internal switch. I ultimately plan to get it checked by an electrician but before I do I thought it best to check the fundamentals are correct.
I have experience of wiring switches and adding internal lights both from loops and junction boxes.
Essentially I cut into the downstairs lighting circuit. I have added a spur using a three terminal junction box. That spur leads to a four terminal junction box.
That junction box has a cable going to a switch and the exterior light. I am 99% certain I have wired this junction box correctly including ensuring the switch twin core and earth is treated as too live cores (one core I have wrapped in black tape to remind me that it is live).
The switch is a standard one-way switch with an earth terminal in the corner of the box. The exterior light is a twin core and earth which I have matched up with the wires from the circuit.
i know I shouldn't be once complete I tried the light. I am certain it switched on for a second and then went off. Every time I switch the switch I can hear the detector click but there is no light. It is a light detecting exterior light which I have checked the settings.
I have now disconnected the spur from the original circuit and will call in an electrician. In the meantime I would be interested to know where, if at all, I went wrong.
Thanks.
PS. I know many will simply state I should have called an electrician but finding someone who can do a job within the month is proving difficult....
I have experience of wiring switches and adding internal lights both from loops and junction boxes.
Essentially I cut into the downstairs lighting circuit. I have added a spur using a three terminal junction box. That spur leads to a four terminal junction box.
That junction box has a cable going to a switch and the exterior light. I am 99% certain I have wired this junction box correctly including ensuring the switch twin core and earth is treated as too live cores (one core I have wrapped in black tape to remind me that it is live).
The switch is a standard one-way switch with an earth terminal in the corner of the box. The exterior light is a twin core and earth which I have matched up with the wires from the circuit.
i know I shouldn't be once complete I tried the light. I am certain it switched on for a second and then went off. Every time I switch the switch I can hear the detector click but there is no light. It is a light detecting exterior light which I have checked the settings.
I have now disconnected the spur from the original circuit and will call in an electrician. In the meantime I would be interested to know where, if at all, I went wrong.
Thanks.
PS. I know many will simply state I should have called an electrician but finding someone who can do a job within the month is proving difficult....