Recent content by pedro163

:lol: it's light, it's dark, light, dark, on, off! It works. Cheers fella - much appreciated!!! Thanks too to everyone else who's posted M

Connect the single instead of the double red...if you think that'll work, it's worth a shot.

Yeah, there's one light switch in kitchen and one in the lounge to turn lounge light on. The switch plate at the wall - there's two grey flex - 1 with two red wires coming out of [going to L1 and L2], and 1 with 1 red wire coming out of going to bottom. The wires coming out of the ceiling...

It's just the earth and red on its own - definitely never a black there. Behind the switch plate on the wall is three red wires - L1 and L2 [top] and one other at bottom. Can't understand why it was working fine with old light and now nothing?!

OK. There's actually three cables: 1) Red, Black and Earth 2) Red, Black and Earth 3) Red and Earth only Make any sense to anyone?

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Right, this is making no sense at all. Sorry, call me thick [mainly tired] but I can't suss this. Any help much appreciated. Flex from the ceiling includes 2x red [both twisted together], 2x black [both twisted together], 1x earth, 1x red When I took the old light down, the earth was...

Ref. grey sheath around wires, yes I do. Thanks for the 'for reference' advice - I'll check it out.

Your right - no fuses have blown/tripped fuse box, and the lights in all other rooms are working fine. I've not changed anything at the wall switches. The wires coming from the ceiling are: Red [two] Black [two] Earth [no earth on new ceiling light] Red [single] - not used with old...

Can anyone help? We've changed over our ceiling light. With wires correctly connected [Black to Blue. Brown to Red] and fuse switch back to on, the light comes on, but the wall switch doesn't work? Where I am going wrong - sure it's probably obvious to everyone but me, but it's driving me...