New light

[MrFrosty]

I've just changed a light in my front room. On the old fitting it had a long type terminal block with 3 reds, 2 blacks together, a single black and a yellow wire with all the earths connected together and a blue and red connected together in the ceiling. So I connected the 3 reds together, the 2 blacks which went to the neutral on the light, the single black goes to the live, the yellow is on it's own and the earths are together. Now I've managed to take the switch in the room out and the front room light turns on with the hallway. Any ideas what I've done wrong? I'm trying to do it myself without pestering the sparky at work again.

Thanks

 

[ban-all-sheds]

//www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:lighting

 

[sparkwright]

Did you leave the red and the blue that was in the ceiling as it was?

 

[sparkwright]

When the two lights are on are they dim or normal brightness?

Do you have just the one light in the living room?

Are you certain you had a black that went on it's own?

 

[MrFrosty]

Yes I left the blue and red as they were. I definitely kept the individual black as I put some electric tape around the coating when I took it out. Both lights (the hallway and the new one in the front room) are both dull nowhere near the brightness they were.

 

[sparkwright]

Before you do anything check you have circuit breakers/fuse wire/spare fuses in case altering the wiring blows the circuit.

Make a note of the black wire you say was separate.

I think the black should go with the other blacks,
and the yellow to the live terminal of the light fitting.

Remember to isolate the power first.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

2 negative ratings for a link to the site Wiki.

My, we do have some seriously petty children loose on this site.

 

[MrFrosty]

Ban all sheds what??? Thank you for pointing me to the diagram, however as it was missing half the wires I mentioned I had, wasn't much use! Negative comments? Where?

Sparkwright thank you very much for your help. In the end the electrician we use at work finished a job early and popped up to sort it out. However even with his 35 years experience took him a while to work it all out as whoever wired my house did it in a very strange way. It's now all working though and on the brightside the next light I had to change has only 3 reds, 3 blacks and the earths hopefully I can do that one. Thanks again for the help.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Ban all sheds what??? Thank you for pointing me to the diagram, however as it was missing half the wires I mentioned I had, wasn't much use!

Sorry - at a quick glance it read like the cable-saving method...

Negative comments? Where?

15th August 2010, 19:45

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[Taylortwocities]

Negative comments?

For AC these should be called neutral comments