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Hi,

I've just recently removed and old fluorescent light from my kitchen ready to wire up to a new 4 bar halogen spotlight. I need to wire into the new light a switched live, neutral and earth supply, here is where the confusion comes in. The earth is fine thats a green and yellow cable. There is are 3 black cables, two are taped together and one is left on its own and there are three red cables which the previous fitter has capped off and covered with insulation tape and were never used.

Now im guessing the black cable left on its own is meant to be the switched live?? though it has no red core or red anywhere on it, so i could be wrong.

Thanks for your help
 
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Hi,

I've just recently removed and old fluorescent light from my kitchen ready to wire up to a new 4 bar halogen spotlight. I need to wire into the new light a switched live, neutral and earth supply, here is where the confusion comes in. The earth is fine thats a green and yellow cable. There is are 3 black cables, two are taped together and one is left on its own and there are three red cables which the previous fitter has capped off and covered with insulation tape and were never used.

Now im guessing the black cable left on its own is meant to be the switched live?? though it has no red core or red anywhere on it, so i could be wrong.

Thanks for your help

The easiest way is to simply replicate where the previous lamp fittings S/L- N - E went !

Are you absolutely sure the red cables are all 'dead' :LOL:

Old wiring was red- L, Black- N and g/yellow- E (often an unsleeved bare wire).

Have a quick look in the wiki at the lighting diagrams, and the new to old colour codes- new L = brown (old red), new N = blue (old black).

Likely that the single black is s/L and the group black N.

Picture would be handy, and are you sure the reds are 'dead'
 
The 3 red wires are most likely the permanent live, so need to be connected with a proper connection block, and NOT covered in insulation tape.

Prepare for disappointment too - that halogen bar light will give out significantly less light than the fluorescent one did, yet will probably use far more energy.
 

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