lighting

[danstrak]

My kitchen lights have stopped working. I have replaced the switch and the pendant light with 5 spots - they worked for a while but now don't. I have checked the switch.

I have 3 wires power in, power out and switch ( I presume) The lives, neutrals and earths are connected to 3 plastic terminal connectors. The other side of the 3 plastic terminal connectors I have one wire with the live neutral and earth connected to the corresponding lives, neutrals and earths of the 3 wires mentioned above. I think this is my problem as I think I should have a switched live or neautral wire or something.

Can anyone provide me any info?
Thanks,
Dan

 

[Steve]

one of the blacks is a switched live. You need to find which cable goes to the switch. Then connect this black directly to the light's live input (you may need another bit of terminal block). To find the switch cable, you can do a continuity test across the 2 cores, L+N of each cable, until you find the one whose continuity varies by flicking the switch. Easy with a cheap multimeter (power needs to be off to do this test)

 

[danstrak]

Thanks for the reply. where does the switches red wire get connected to?
Thanks,
Dan

 

[Steve]

to the rest of the reds. obvious now, isn't it ?

 

[danstrak]

Thanks very much for your time and advice. - I have done it now and its working sweet !!
Found a picture on this site that showed me.
Thanks again though.
Dan