New bathroom light

[Capitano]

OK, so I realise there\\\'s been a lot of posts on this subject but I can\\\'t find one that relates to my situation.

I took the old pendant light out of the bathroom and it was connected to what appears to be a loop-in system. The old light had a long terminal block which accepted 8 wires, 3 marked N, 3 marked LOOP and two marked L, and it had a separate bit for 2 earth wires. Coming out of the roof were 9 wires: 3 green and yellow, 2 black and 4 red. My new light only has a single block which accepts one live, one neutral and one earth. Can I shove all the lives, neutrals and earths into this one block or am I going to burn my house down. As I have two red wires coming from the same grey cable (along with a green and yellow), I presume one of them is a black in disguise. How do I determine which is which? No, I wasn\\\'t bright enough to record which came from where before I took it all apart. Hope you can help. Cheers

 

[Steve]

Those 2 reds in the same sheath are BOTH LIVE - they are RED for a reason. This particular cable goes to the switch.

Connect one of them with the other 2 reds (in a spare piece of terminal block), and the other to the LIVE on your new light.

Connect the blacks all to the neutral terminal on the new light.

And the earths to the earth terminal.

 

[RF Lighting]

I found this in the FAQ

your cable with two reds goes to the switch

 

[Steve]

RF, surely you could have found one with double red for the switch drop?

 

[Spark123]

Well it was drawn in mspaint....

 

[RF Lighting]

Happy now?

 

[Spark123]

Can you do them in harmonized colours as well while you're at it?

 

[RF Lighting]

Some people. Never happy are they


<edit> I really need to get out more

 

[moderator]

Joking aside, would you please make a new post in the reference section with those new pictures

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Thank you

 

[Capitano]

Thanks guys, had a go at what you suggested but only succeeded in using up another foot of fuse wire. Think I'll have to get a pro in for this. Cheers for your efforts.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

If you'd had a multimeter you could have identified the wires, and had no problems....

 

[Steve]

If you'd had a multimeter you could have identified the wires, and had no problems....

he knows which is the switch wire! it has been identified as the double red wire . . . . unless his spark was a sick man and used double red for the circuit cable.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

So he did - I missed that bit - thought he could only see the cores, not the cables.

So in that case this: "Thanks guys, had a go at what you suggested" isn't true.....

 

[Capitano]

Just to bring you up to date: the pro came and fixed the light fitting for me, but it turned out that one of the two red wires was indeed a neutral in disguise, and the bloke who wired the thing up in the first place had made a mistake. Probably should have let you guys know that my house appears to have been built by a pack of chumps...