Hi there,
I am having some trouble wiring a pair of JCC Royal Blue quad chrome ceiling spotlight bars! I've recently bought a repossessed flat in need of renovations which I have been carrying out mostly myself. I have friends who are tradespeople including an electrician but this last job has me stuck.
The living room where I want to install these lights has loop in wiring and I have removed the old ceiling roses and identified the switch live wire. I have screwed the three red wires from the ceiling into 1 terminal of a 4 terminal block, then the switch live, the two black neutral and the earth into terminals one by one. Then I have run a length of 3 core wire from each of the corresponding terminals (switch live - brown), (black neutral - blue) and ( earth-green yellow) on the block to the light fitting and connected them.
However every time I put the power back on the fuse trips off again once the switch is in the on position. It is doing this with both lights. I thought there might be something wrong with the actual lights and so does by electrician friend but I wondered if anyone had any other ideas. I contacted the place I got the lights from but they say a problem with the actual light is very rare especially two of them.
Rather than go off and buy different lights (I quite like the look of these and have a triple spotlight disc in the kitchen) and have the hassle of trying to return these I wanted to see if there was anything I was missing?
Cheers
I am having some trouble wiring a pair of JCC Royal Blue quad chrome ceiling spotlight bars! I've recently bought a repossessed flat in need of renovations which I have been carrying out mostly myself. I have friends who are tradespeople including an electrician but this last job has me stuck.
The living room where I want to install these lights has loop in wiring and I have removed the old ceiling roses and identified the switch live wire. I have screwed the three red wires from the ceiling into 1 terminal of a 4 terminal block, then the switch live, the two black neutral and the earth into terminals one by one. Then I have run a length of 3 core wire from each of the corresponding terminals (switch live - brown), (black neutral - blue) and ( earth-green yellow) on the block to the light fitting and connected them.
However every time I put the power back on the fuse trips off again once the switch is in the on position. It is doing this with both lights. I thought there might be something wrong with the actual lights and so does by electrician friend but I wondered if anyone had any other ideas. I contacted the place I got the lights from but they say a problem with the actual light is very rare especially two of them.
Rather than go off and buy different lights (I quite like the look of these and have a triple spotlight disc in the kitchen) and have the hassle of trying to return these I wanted to see if there was anything I was missing?
Cheers