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I am looking to move a light fitting so it's over my table (currently all lights are screwed into joists which are in odd places). I'd like to do this by installing a hook with a plasterboard fixing and 'swagging' the pendant. However these tend to be quite long and I am concerned about...

No it's definitely not fish - it's very feint but everyone can smell it when entering the room. The smell is similar to hot plastic smell, or when you burn dust off a new appliance like boiling a new kettle. It's too dark now but I'll recheck all connections first thing tomorrow, I did check...

Contacted the manufacturer and they said T2 holders. Could it be the wiring of the switch? The old one had 2 inputs (L3 and L2) they had 2 wires in L3 and 1 wire in L2. My new switch has L1,L2 & L3. I have 1 in L1 and 2 in L2.

I've turned them off and will call a sparky tomorrow, can't take risks of burning the house down :(

I wasn't sure what that meant at the time, seems very obvious to me now :)

The rose and pendant drop are rated for 100w - the bulbs I used are 40w. Not sure if it's T1 or T2.

OK, so now the room with the 2 new lights has a feint burning smell - and the new light fitting is very hot - I've turned it off while I investigate. Could this be the wiring, the bulb or the fitting? I do have just 2 candle bulbs in there for now as this is what was in the chandeliers (10 of...

Haha no problem, just wondered why it was different to the others - believe me I am not touching it again!

It worked! :D:D:D:D I trust this is the correct way to do it and will be safe? Is this looping at the switch?

Update: OK I really think I am getting somewhere! I disconnected both wires in rose #1 and tested again. I have 240v from one cable when the switch is on, and 0v when the switch is off. The second cable gives me 0v regardless. So I wired up the 240v wires to the rose and it works, full...

Hi - it's on the after picture, but not very clear. It's the far left one next to the blue

I really don't recall it coming off, if anything I was very cautious of keeping it on, but with 2 screaming kids and everything else going on it's possibility I guess...

I've seen some advice that says if lights #1 & #2 are on the same circuit with a single switch then it should be both reds together and both blacks together. I think that makes sense to me, but I've also seen advice saying never to put 2 blacks together!

Hi Securespark- sorry about the confusion. I posted an update this morning; basically I swapped rose #3 for a better quality one (easier for me to swap wires around) and I also worked out how the original rose was wired up and copied that exactly. Since then all the lights work correctly, the...

Definetly electricity into the living room roses - they are on just not the usual brightness - as if they are not getting enough power? Re the black blob, yes sorry I should have labeled that. This is exactly as you said; a light at the bottom of the stairs that comes on/off with light #3 on my...

In the light switch I have 3 red cables, 2 into L3 and 1 into L2 (those are the only inputs). I replaced this with a switch that had L1,L2,L3 and it works when I place the pair in L1 and the single into L2. RE the MM - yes it's fine as are the lights. I put MM on V 200 and had a reading that...

Here is where I am setup as of today. The only reason I labeled them switches is because of the switch test with my mm. They both go off when one of the 2 switches is on. The dimmer wires are also connected to the porch light because swapping these over can turn the porch lights on/off from...

Hmm put my mm on and it went bang and tripped the fuse, now i need new pants.

Thanks for persisting with me securespark! I did identify the switch cables when I first swapped the rose, the MM beeped and it didn't on the other 2 cables - but now I get no beep (though those 2 cables do jump up in number)

So if I understand you correctly I should move both black wires to share 1 hole and both red wires to one hole? I am 99.9% sure I have rose #3 correct as going through it wire by wire there is only 2 ways I can configure it and I have tried both, whereas rose #1 I didn't look how they had it...