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Thanks all. Wiring the bracket to earth got rid of the ghost voltage. And yes, I would never fully trust the pen so would always back up with probes, and/or multimeter (unfortunately I'm currently without the LoZ setting).

- The light is 240V. No transformer. - When the light shade was tested on the ground in isolation away from the ceiling fixing, the pen detector did not indicate it was live (no beeping). Multimeter connected to neutral supply and touching the metal shade of the light read 0v. - The light fixing...

I am currently replacing an old ceiling pendant light with a new double-insulated metallic pendant light. The previous light was not double-insulated so I moved all the wiring in the old plastic ceiling rose into a junction box to be pushed into the hole away from the new metal rose. The two...