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Can someone pleeeeaaase help! I am trying to replace an outside wall light, which was broken yesterday buy a swing door. Don't ask! Clearly this would normally be relatively simple. However, the original light was in a fact a PIR LIGHT that was being used a normal light ie it didn't sense light, you just flicked the switch on and off inside to use it.
Having taken the old light off the wall I can see that there is 3 core and earth (grey, black, brown and earth) coming out of the wall BUT the sparky doesn't seem to be using the live (brown)! There is a connecting block with the black (in the hole marked L?), grey (in the hole marked N) and earth wires connecting. Having said that I didn't see all the original connections and the old light seemed to have more wires in it. Anyway lets keep this simple. I have bought a standard 150 watt halogen light which has a simple connecting block with room for earth, live and neutral. I'm really not sure about connecting the live to what the sparky had used as the live (black wire) etc. What do I do? And surely I'm going to have a spare wire in any case. What do I do with that?
Can someone pleeeeaaase help! I am trying to replace an outside wall light, which was broken yesterday buy a swing door. Don't ask! Clearly this would normally be relatively simple. However, the original light was in a fact a PIR LIGHT that was being used a normal light ie it didn't sense light, you just flicked the switch on and off inside to use it.
Having taken the old light off the wall I can see that there is 3 core and earth (grey, black, brown and earth) coming out of the wall BUT the sparky doesn't seem to be using the live (brown)! There is a connecting block with the black (in the hole marked L?), grey (in the hole marked N) and earth wires connecting. Having said that I didn't see all the original connections and the old light seemed to have more wires in it. Anyway lets keep this simple. I have bought a standard 150 watt halogen light which has a simple connecting block with room for earth, live and neutral. I'm really not sure about connecting the live to what the sparky had used as the live (black wire) etc. What do I do? And surely I'm going to have a spare wire in any case. What do I do with that?