Hello all! So I was going to call an electrician in, but I'd really rather learn to do it myself. So hopefully someone will be kindly willing to spend a few minutes helping me out!
I have some wall lights to replace. They are currently linked to a master dimmer switch (3 gang for some other lights) with a second 3 gang on/off rocker switch. Flat was gutted and refurbished from scratch (including electrics obvs) in 2017.
Probably not relevant, but both the old and new lamps are Italian. The existing setup shows double wires for live, neutral and earth coming out of the wall into little Wago splicing connectors (not sure what the terminology is, but let's say "circuit in"). The live (I'm assuming Brown) and Neutral (Blue) "circuit out" connectors have wires connecting to the existing wall lamp (the two, identical, clear wires). The earth wire circuit out seems to be another double wire, one end connecting into the lamp, the other to the wall mounting plate.
So if I disconnect the existing wall light entirely, I'll just be left with the 3 sets of double wires coming out of the wall (the mounting plate will also disappear).
The new lights (second hand, ex-display from a showroom) were delivered to me as per the other photos. 2 metres of black cable with 3 wires (live, neutral, earth) that connect into the little grey "junction box", that then slots and connects into the lamp.
Any help for how I should be wiring this new lamp in would be massively appreciated! (Oh, and yes, I've turned off the relevant circuit in the fuse box
I have some wall lights to replace. They are currently linked to a master dimmer switch (3 gang for some other lights) with a second 3 gang on/off rocker switch. Flat was gutted and refurbished from scratch (including electrics obvs) in 2017.
Probably not relevant, but both the old and new lamps are Italian. The existing setup shows double wires for live, neutral and earth coming out of the wall into little Wago splicing connectors (not sure what the terminology is, but let's say "circuit in"). The live (I'm assuming Brown) and Neutral (Blue) "circuit out" connectors have wires connecting to the existing wall lamp (the two, identical, clear wires). The earth wire circuit out seems to be another double wire, one end connecting into the lamp, the other to the wall mounting plate.
So if I disconnect the existing wall light entirely, I'll just be left with the 3 sets of double wires coming out of the wall (the mounting plate will also disappear).
The new lights (second hand, ex-display from a showroom) were delivered to me as per the other photos. 2 metres of black cable with 3 wires (live, neutral, earth) that connect into the little grey "junction box", that then slots and connects into the lamp.
Any help for how I should be wiring this new lamp in would be massively appreciated! (Oh, and yes, I've turned off the relevant circuit in the fuse box