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    Wiring new light fitting. One of the ceiling cables has 2 brown wires instead of the expected brown and blue....please help.

    Thank you to everyone for your help and advice. For clarity, I am in an old council block in Bristol (I've lived in old places before and have tinkered with the old red and black wiring.....so the "new to me" twin brown threw me). I'll not use the light until I can source an isolated connector...
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    Wiring new light fitting. One of the ceiling cables has 2 brown wires instead of the expected brown and blue....please help.

    I wrapped the connector in electrical tape....would that suffice? Or do I need to buy a purpose built jobbie for it?
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    Wiring new light fitting. One of the ceiling cables has 2 brown wires instead of the expected brown and blue....please help.

    Thank you so much Taylortwocities! I'm not keeping the original rose (I pinched one of the double connectors from it to connect up the permanent live). Nice new light fitting up, and it hasn't tripped anything.....guess llama CAN follow instructions .
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    Wiring new light fitting. One of the ceiling cables has 2 brown wires instead of the expected brown and blue....please help.

    Hi there. I bought a new light fitting which has a different configuration of connectors than the standard rose (3 single connectors instead of 3 blocks of multiple connectors). The two cables coming out of the ceiling have one standard (expected) wires (blue, brown and earth), but the other...
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