old wiring on ceiling rose

ej2206 · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:22 pm Post Subject: old wiring on ceiling rose

hi - I took an old light off and didn\\\'t take note of what wire was connected to what. I have 3red wires 3 black wires and 1 green/yellow striped wire coming out of the ceiling - what do i connect where to the new light? the new light has 1 brown 1 blue and 1 green/yellow wire?

many thanks - dumb blonde girl in need of help x

andy · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:30 pm Post Subject: Re: old wiring on ceiling rose

ej2206 wrote:

hi - I took an old light off and didn\\\'t take note of what wire was connected to what. I have 3red wires 3 black wires and 1 green/yellow striped wire coming out of the ceiling - what do i connect where to the new light? the new light has 1 brown 1 blue and 1 green/yellow wire?

many thanks - dumb blonde girl in need of help x

see for reference

Lectrician · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:38 pm Post Subject:

Yup - look in for reference - my tip - 2 blacks are neutral, and a mystery black is live.

On another note, I see it so many times on this forum (assuming odd browsers??)

didn\\\'t

Whats with the \\\ in didn't ?

andy · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:39 pm Post Subject:

Lectrician wrote:

On another note, I see it so many times on this forum (assuming odd browsers??)

didn\\\'t

Whats with the \\\ in didn't ?

i\\\ have\\\ no\\\ idea\\\

ban-all-sheds · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:52 am Post Subject:

The clue is in the bit at the top where it says

This topic originated from the How to page - any topic created by posting there rather than directly in this forum ends up with those.

It's also why people post questions that are answered in the For Reference topic - they have no idea it exists.

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plugwash · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:24 pm Post Subject:

and it also positively encourages digging up old posts despite the fact that the mod team are dead set against people doing that.

Lectrician · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:12 pm Post Subject:

I must be missing something??

If it originates somewhere else, how or why does it end up with \\\ ??

plugwash · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:34 pm Post Subject:

Lectrician wrote:

I must be missing something??

If it originates somewhere else, how or why does it end up with \\\ ??

i'd guess because of poor code by someone

btw as to the original question why have none of the responses mentioned earthing. if there is only one earth wire coming out of the ceiling there is a very very high chance it isn't actually connected to earth properly.