just want to check really or have i got it completely wrapped round my head? 
Fluorescent light wiring
- Thread starter Clueless101
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- Your L and N are round the wrong way (check by looking at the fitting's colours and the fuse position
- The earth should go under the brass (coloured) screw
- The earth should go under the brass (coloured) screw
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Paul_C
You're showing your incoming earth going to the mounting screw, but the terminal block provides a screw for that purpose - The brass-colored one in the middle.
You've also reversed L & N on your incoming cable. Match up the brown & blue with the wires leading out on the other side. The terminal block is stamped L & N as well.
Edit: Beat me to it by a few seconds.
You've also reversed L & N on your incoming cable. Match up the brown & blue with the wires leading out on the other side. The terminal block is stamped L & N as well.
Edit: Beat me to it by a few seconds.
Thanks 
where the L is in the picture the box above it has like 240v so i was thinking the fuse was there but where i've put the N is a bit more raised up so is that where it is?
where the L is in the picture the box above it has like 240v so i was thinking the fuse was there but where i've put the N is a bit more raised up so is that where it is?Yep
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Paul_C
In your picture in which you've added the drawing of the supply cable, you can see the two (silver-colored) terminals for L & N. L is the one on the left which connects through the fuse to the brown which goes out to the fitting. N is the one on the right, which just connects directly through to the outgoing blue wire on the other side.
Thanks to you both ..... a lot of help.
FFS did the existing colours mean nothing to you?Thanks
Hello rude person. if this is all you can do FO. The colours there are lighter than they normally are and with colour change overs like with armoured cable to come in line with europe who knows...... in future love if all you can do is make useless comments mind your own business...... jog on little boy !!!
No need to be shy and beat around the bush just because you're new. 
Thanks I won't, just can't be doing with impertinent comments from know it alls.No need to be shy and beat around the bush just because you're new.
OK - so they are light brown and light blue.
Your point is?
What changes are those?
Not you, obviously.
It is my business.
If you don't want your incompetence remarked upon, stop displaying it.
What changes are those?
Brown is the old red
Black is the old yellow
Grey is the old blue
So it's only with armoured cables that the core colours have changed, is it?
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Paul_C
And blue is the old black. Except that to add to the confusion blue & brown had already been substituted for black & red respectively in flexible cords some 40 years ago.
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