5 red wires in ceiling lamp (Ed.)

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Evening All, I’m trying to fit a ceiling light with the standard 3 wires. The problem I have is that there are 5 red wires coming from the ceiling. Any ideas please?
 

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No, I haven’t put the new wires to it, but they are standard brown, blue and yellow
 
Can you remember, or deduce from which port is dirtier/more oxidised/has its screw more screwed down than the others, which was the unused one?
 
Markymark01 said:
Evening All, I’m trying to fit a ceiling light with the standard 3 wires. The problem I have is that there are 5 red wires coming from the ceiling. Any ideas please?
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If it’s a light that can only be operated by a single switch , it would be nice to think the single red is the switched live but Im probably over simplifying as there’s so many permutations
 
Thanks for your replies folks. I’m usually ok at this sort of thing but it looks like I’ll have to get a sparky in.
 
Going off the numbers of conductors, I would say from L-R:

Loop, SL, Neutral, Earth.

This can be confirmed with a multimeter.
 
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