Light fitting wiring advice needed

[Llarius]

Bought a new light fitting for our new house (new build), and the wiring diagram has confused me somewhat (it doesn't take much!)...

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So the problem I have is that our household supply has an earth, brown and blue, but not the fourth wire/core that would be connecting to the 'S' terminal in the diagram.

Stupid question - is this even compatible with my household wiring, and if so what do I need to do to make it work? Currently it is setup as shown on the diagram (no power to it, and no bulb to test with at present):

• Blue to N
• Earth to Earth
• Nothing on the household supply side to S
• Brown to L

I know this is probably really simple, but rather than risk anything would appreciate some good advice on what I need to do as it's not making sense to me - surely with the setup I've got at the moment, there won't be any power to the fitting?

 

[bernardgreen]

Blue to N ( Neutral )
Earth to Earth
Brown to S ( The Brown is the switched Live )
Nothing on the household supply side to L ( this is the Loop Terminal )

Loop is used to connect permanent Lives together. Your installation does not have permanent Lives at the lamp.

 

[Llarius]

Thanks Bernard. I thought it was probably as simple as that, but didn't want to risk anything if I was wrong! better safe than sorry is my moto for electrics, gas and plumbing... This is about the extent of my electrical 'handywork', anything else and we get a professional in!

 

[winston1]

What Bernard wrote was exactly as it said in the instructions so why didn't you read them?

 

[Llarius]

What Bernard wrote was exactly as it said in the instructions so why didn't you read them?

Firstly thanks for the helpful contribution (which Bernard had already sorted for me-and I've now done it and have a working lamp), but I Think you'll find to the uninitiated in the diagram it says a blue with brown sheathing, whereas the next one down said brown...I thought I had a brown, not blue with brown sheathing. Now if that's the same thing my mistake, I'm not an electrician, but at least I'm trying. so yeah I did do as it says but thought I'd come here to check, and glad I did, not that you've added anything at all to the discussion....

If you came to me to ask about how you can improve your export sales and marketing I'd actually provide a useful answer, but that's just me. I wouldn't assume you knew everything about someone else's industry.

 

[sparkwright]

No problem Llarius.

If you don't know, you don't know.

And you did the right thing by checking and asking first.