Kitchen ceiling spotlights- how do you turn them on?

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Hi
I am moving in to a new house and it has built in spotlights in the kitchen ceiling. How do you turn them on? Pushing. holding and twisting the switch has not done anything, and the trips seem OK.
Could it be a serial connection, just light Xmas tree lights? :?

Kind regards
Marie
 
If they provide the main room lighting then they would normally be turned on in the same way as any other household lights, via a switch on the wall.

If, however, they are purely decorative or under-cabinet lights, they may be fed via a fused connection unit somewhere in the kitchen. An FCU looks something like this:

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If you still can't get them working, the switch may be faulty, or any variety of other things. If you don't mind DIY electrics then some basic fault finding isn't particularly difficult with the right tools.
 
are they on a dimmer switch? If so this may be at fault, so you could try replacing it

SB
 
push, twist, hold? sounds like a dimmer to me...

stupid questions first...

1. did you look to see if the breakers were all on?
2. did you look to see if the spotlights had lamps in them? ( some people really are that tight... they take the lamps with them when they move )
 
Hi
They all have lights and the breakers are on. The switch is a round rubber switch, never seen one like that before - but you can twist it so I guess it is a dimmer.
I just wondered if these types of lighting is usually a serial connection so if one light goes it will affect all of them?
 
polarbee - basically you have two choices.

1) Learn how lighting circuits work, buy a multimeter, start tracing the fault.

2) Click here.
 
I would start with replacing the dimmer with a normal switch as it might be this simple......
 

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