Recent content by mikesimm

just to say thanks for everyone's help - light fitting working fine.

thanks again - i'll let you know how I get on.

sorry Paul - one last thing - the three reds in a connector block - nothing from the light attached to it ?

thats brilliant thanks - its too dark to work on now so I'll do it in the morning. Thanks a million for your help. Hope england win. If you have sky - Murray's beating Federer.

one eye on the football here too. Crouch should have scored. So I have five wires (three reds and two blacks) to neutral and the other black to the live of the light fitting. If I understand you right, does it matter which black ?

I'm not 100% sure. Just say a little more about your last post as I reckon it must be that. Any way I can tell which red is on its own (or doesn't it matter). It would help me if you could clarify, from the wires down from the ceiling, how they should be combined. Really appreciate your help.

No - I had three reds all twisted together, three blacks twisted together and 2 earths twisted together. Each of the three colours go into separate plastic junction boxes.

Hi In my son's room he had an old 3 light ceiling spot light. One of the bulbs literally blew out of the holder and although I tried to replace it one of the three lights won't work - so as it was 20 years old, I bought a new 4 light spotlight. I wired the old red fron the ceiling into the...