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Just replaced a noisy fan with new quiet one, but it's permanently on.
One cable with three core wires and a earth core running into the fan. I've wired the brown to live, black to switched live, and grey to neutral, and this leaves the fan permanently on. Have I ballsed it up with colours?
Should have looked before I disconnected the old one of course but had assumed the correct colours were wired up, and a diwnstairs fan is wired this way and working correctly.
Swopped brown and black around as thought lives may be mixed up, but fan buzzed quietly so assuming that's not good, and swopped them back.
The fan is on the same circuit as the light switch.
Any advice folks? I have a multimeter if that's what I need to identify things.
One cable with three core wires and a earth core running into the fan. I've wired the brown to live, black to switched live, and grey to neutral, and this leaves the fan permanently on. Have I ballsed it up with colours?
Should have looked before I disconnected the old one of course but had assumed the correct colours were wired up, and a diwnstairs fan is wired this way and working correctly.
Swopped brown and black around as thought lives may be mixed up, but fan buzzed quietly so assuming that's not good, and swopped them back.
The fan is on the same circuit as the light switch.
Any advice folks? I have a multimeter if that's what I need to identify things.