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It just seemed strange it was a thick copper wore not thin strands ?

Hi terry all working now but you can see that they had used the earth wire for the live switch

Ok thanks

Ok terry you have a lot more knowledge about this than me , wouldnt that give me an accurate reading for the yellow wire to see if its live when it’s switched on and dead when its switched off or is that just me being nieve?

Its this one

Just a basic tester to see if wires are live

Terry If i test the yellow wire to see if its live when switched on and dead when its switched off that should confirm that it is the switched live ? Am I correct by saying that

If i test the yellow wire to see if its live when switched on and dead when its switched off that should confirm that it is the switched live ? Am I correct by saying that

Will do thank you

Oh ok i have not noticed that but there is some tape higher up the wire so it could be in there , what i will do when i get home is check that yellow wire to see if that is the switched live im sure it must be

That’s brilliant thanks for the help , I think the yellow is an earth wire but it has been used for the switched live because you can see the wiring on the old fan when I took that down the yellow wire was connected to one of them in the block and none of those are earth ?

Yes that’s correct, so do i need to put the yellow switched live to the live terminal and the permanent live red wire to the block with nothing connected to it ?

Yes the fan did run for a few minutes after been switched off

That is the old one that came off if you can see the wiring the yellow earth cable was in one of them blocks ?

Hi sorry im at work now i cant get a pic, but yes i have just connected the live and neutral wires but not the earth wire because the new fan does not require an earth , but the more I think about it all these fans require a live and a switched live ,so has some one just used a 3 core wire and...

Im just replacing a fan in my bathroom, there is only 3 wires coming from the ceiling live neutral earth ? The old fan used to switch on and off with the light switch outside the bathroom, ive wired the new fan up live and earth because they are the only terminals in the new fan , the fan is now...