Help please

[wendyroo]

New light fitting only has Live, Neutral and Earth. Light wiring is in the unit. Old copper wires.......

 

[opps]

The switched live is the one on the second from left, the neutral is the second from right. The permanent lives are in the middle block. EDIT #2- As per @pete01 - I have them arse about face.

I am not an electrician.

Edit #1, the lives in the middle need to be kept together.

One of those live wires runs down to the light switch. The switched live runs from the switch to the light rose.

The colour of a cable alone does not indicate if it is live or neutral.

 

[pete01]

The live is on the right (single black don't lose this mark it red)

The neutral is on the left

The 3 reds in the middle are the loop, these don't connect to the light.

I think the flex has been connected the wrong way.

 

[SUNRAY]

Yes the 3 reds just connect together and nothing else, typically put all 3 into a single piece of connector block or a 3way wago.

 

[wendyroo]

Thank you guys, will have another go tomorrow

 

[sparkwright]

To clarify what's been said:-
The single black is the switched live (currently wrongly connected to the blue lampholder flex, should be the brown).
The two blacks are the neutrals (currently wrongly connected to the brown lampholder flex, should be the blue).

 

[CountryFan]

To clarify what's been said:-
The single black is the switched live (currently wrongly connected to the blue lampholder flex, should be the brown).
The two blacks are the neutrals (currently wrongly connected to the brown lampholder flex, should be the blue).

Sorry, but this makes no sense to me. @pete01’s picture does. Isn’t the switched black with red sleeving?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Sorry, but this makes no sense to me. @pete01’s picture does. Isn’t the switched black with red sleeving?

Yes, in Pete's picture it is - but Wendy's has no red sleeving.

 

[sparkwright]

Sorry, but this makes no sense to me. @pete01’s picture does. Isn’t the switched black with red sleeving?

I am referring the picture the op originally sent in.

 

[SUNRAY]

Hopefully doing this and making them both look the same will make it clearer

Your existing flex should be the colours arrowed, the blue arrow being Neutral and the brown arrow being Live

 

[CountryFan]

Yes, in Pete's picture it is - but Wendy's has no red sleeving.

I am referring the picture the op originally sent in.

Apologies, must be the poor quality photo, my eyes or the way I’m looking at it, as I see red sleeving on one, or I thought I did

 

[SUNRAY]

Apologies, must be the poor quality photo, my eyes or the way I’m looking at it, as I see red sleeving on one, or I thought I did

Oh... well spotted - I had to look on a different PC to see what you are talking about.
And no mention of any existing problems.

 

[CountryFan]

Oh... well spotted - I had to look on a different PC to see what you are talking about.
And no mention of any existing problems.

Yeah, I had to go to maximum brightness and zoom in on my iPad

 

[Taylortwocities]

@wendyroo whatever you do, don’t let the red sleeve slip off, or you won’t know which black it’s on. Then you’ll have a painful time trying to resolve.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Apologies, must be the poor quality photo, my eyes or the way I’m looking at it, as I see red sleeving on one, or I thought I did

Does that not just mean there is a red sleeve on one of the neutrals?