Recent content by Zarian2013

1 Gang, These are not hall/stairs/landing - 2 way switching , just 3 lamps on the landing wall to illuminate said area only. Yes I did have to ease the cable to facilitate the redressing. there was some spare between the previous holder and wall ( where it emerges) but as stated at the...

ONE RED, ONE BLACK

Thanks for that. All because I changed the lampholder from Edison to GU10. Worked OK up until then, but the previous Edison holder was cheapy and the bulb base welded itself to it, and I prefer the GU Halogen light anyway.

Whilst I agree a permanent LN short would always trip the circuit my only conclusion ( which is why I hoped a more experienced Sparks could help) is that possibly the movement on the cable has somehow broken down the core insulation so that the when current flows ( loaded) there is an arc...

Definitely, I do not have any low voltage halogen units so I don't have the lamps, that said I did check ( twice ) on the packet. Yes as we speak ( type) there is a terminal block on the end of the wiring and the other lights are fine and the circuit stable. As stated it only happens when...

There is no confusion over the choice of wires into the lamp holder as there are and always has been only two. BLACK/RED. No other wires here. The removal of the original lamp holder was to change an Edison thread unit to a GU10 halogen one. I am pretty sure that a two wire input to a two...

There are 3 lamps on this branch to illuminate the landing area. 2 Working fine, this third one only causes problem.Thus I think they may be individual stems off the 1 supply line ( more like europe than UK ) . So with only live and neutral ( Yes I know, but I didn't wire it ) connected the...

Consumer Panel/Unit This circuit has no earth it is twin only.

It is a Merlun Gerin K60 MCB 16A / 30ma. Was working and is working fine without the offending lamp holder having any load. Once loaded it trips the circuit immediately. My CP is fairly standard configuration, Ring main sockets ground floor, Lighting Ground Floor. Ring Main Sockets 1st...

Ok so I am old and forgetful, but here is the problem, I had a bulb blow in one of my landing lights. It is an E27 ( Edison thread) holder. When removing the bulb the glass came away from the threaded connector. So I isolated the circuit at the CP and tried to remove the offending bulb base...