Bathroom Light, Confused at wiring

[Darthy]

Hi,

My bathroom light was starting to look tired and rusty so I thought that I'd buy a new light.

The light uses a dimmer switch

When I removed the old light, it looked like the following...

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• Darthy
• 7 Oct 2012
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The wiring looks a bit strange to me, also, I'm not sure why there is also a red wire not connected to anything.

Here are the instructions from the new light fitting.

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• Darthy
• 7 Oct 2012
• 1

Can somebody please help!

(I'm a novice!)

 

[boloskyice]

hi it looks like a triple cable is what is confusing you do you have a bathroom fan with a timer? also where did the old light connect into hopefully with switch live and neutral

 

[Darthy]

I have a fan but it isn't on a timer, it's got its own switch and you just manually turn it on and off (seems to be on the same breaker at the fuse box though.)

The light was connected to the red and yellow and also the Black and blue (I presume yellow is switched live?)

Just concerned about the extra live and why it's there and not taped up!

Thanks

 

[boloskyice]

ok it looks like they are only using the neutral and switched live on the triple cable and not the live. is there only 2 cables going into the connection block as i thought that the shadow of the triple live wire was another neutral lol i was fooled. if you put the live wire from the triple into a separate block and test it is it dead?

 

[martinxxxxxx]

You need a little enclosure for that connector block before you put it back in the ceiling