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You are all correct! I moved the red and brown to the spare terminal and the single thread to the opposite the live terminal. Now it works. Thanks for all of your help much appreciated. :D

Yep lesson learnt. In hindsight I wish I had of just stuck a camera in the gap and taken a pic before I took the light down. The single strand black wire was put in the terminal opposite the blue wire and it tripped the RCD.

After :roll:

What I meant is that a live wire had to be opposite a live wire and a neutral wire had to be opposite to a neutral wire - am I wrong is assuming this?

So does the terminal actually distribute the live/ neutral? I just assumed it was a straight through situation similar to twisting the wires together?

Just to clarify on the pictures. There are 5 wires coming out of a whole in the ceiling. 1 brown - old looking with a number of strands. 1 red - newer looking with a number of strands. Both are currently threaded to the live on the light via a junction box. 1 black - old looking and...

Single thread = just 1 single solid strand of wire but thicker than the other wires. The wires emerge from a hole in the ceiling and not from one white cable or from a conduit. I'm pretty sure the earth is the single solid strand as when I attached it to the Neutral it tripped my fuse box...

Ceiling light wiring

Hi I recently bought a couple of ceiling lights from ikea (lock is the model name). I installed one in my hallway which works perfectly but then tried to install one on my landing and it is permanently on, the switches don't turn it off. The main difference being that the landing light has...

I purchased a house in November 2013 - which has a lovely Orangery (rear extension) this was built in 2011 so still very new. A small chunk of render has come away from the exterior of the Orangery which I think is due to damp render. Having had a good look at the paint work it looks like a...

I purchased a house in November 2013 - which has a lovely Orangery (rear extension) this was built in 2011 so still very new. A small chunk of render has come away from the exterior of the Orangery which I think is due to damp render. Having had a good look at the paint work it looks like a...