How to connect a replacement ceiling rose (Ed.)
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Post some close up photos, of the terminals of the ceiling rose..
Always always take a photo beforehand.
An obvious thing to try, would be to swap over those two blacks, which are brown sleeved, but I'm at a loss, to understand why there might be two, which are brown sleeved at all...
What you seem to have either way, is the live, being used for both cores of a two core, which is just silly....
I wonder if (looking at your photo), the rightmost brown sleeved, is the neutral, and should be in the leftmost terminal(neutral), and the middle brown sleeved one, might be the switch wire, belongs in the rightmost terminal with the brown flex? But why did they mark the neutral with brown sleeve??
What you seem to have either way, is the live, being used for both cores of a two core, which is just silly....
I wonder if (looking at your photo), the rightmost brown sleeved, is the neutral, and should be in the leftmost terminal(neutral), and the middle brown sleeved one, might be the switch wire, belongs in the rightmost terminal with the brown flex? But why did they mark the neutral with brown sleeve??
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You mention a front room light and a kitchen but neglect to tell us what room the photo is ?
Remove the black wire from between the reds and report back any effect.
I’ve done that now the switch for the light in the kitchen works but still dim and the front room light not working
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Does the hall light work ok, switches on and off as it should ?
Do you have any electrical testing instruments ?
Do you have any electrical testing instruments ?
That is the way it sometimes is Harry, sometimes for good reason and sometimes (more often) not but it makes it "fun" , yep lighting circuits switching can be a bit complex sometimes and not always easy to follow, sometimes there are a few different alternatives to produce similar results too and someone who follows some methods sometimes find i a bit difficult to follow other methods which are equally as valid. Same as with IT , get a group of us on a keyboard on a laptop etc and you might find we all do six different ways to get to the same thing but are all equally correct and useful but we might find the other 5 ways annoying and difficult to follow even though others find the opposite.
Like I said - fun. LOL.
Sometimes once you have solved what someone has done you can find no logic and sometimes you can and sometimes you find a bit but not a lot. It certainly makes it interesting (or daunting)
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Buy a multimeter ,you can get one for around 15 quid or less,and do some testing.
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