One Emergency Light Won’t Go Out.

[30Sixteen]

Hi guys,

I have a problem with some emergency lighting.
In a place where there are 6 emergency lights (all around 20 years old with old tube bulbs)

One got damaged so I replaced it with a new LED non-maintained one.
It is installed correctly and the SL wire has been removed to make it non-maintained.

However when I switch the power back on all the emergency lights go off and show the Green battery light except the new LED one.
No matter what I do I can’t get it to go out.

I also changed another regular ceiling light fitting in another room at the same time which was earthed but the new light was double insulated so I just blanked off the earth.
But I don’t think this would affect it, would it?

I’m sure it was working fine before I changed the other ceiling light.

Thanks very much for your help.

Matt.

 

[sparkymarka]

no ….post make and model of new unit fitted …I’ve seen some of the newer units having two modes of operation …

 

[30Sixteen]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

It’s a ROBUS R8MLED-01

It’s a maintained and non-maintained light.
To run non-maintained you remove the wire between S+L which I did and it was working fine.

That is until I changed the ceiling light in the other room and blanked off the earth as it was a double insulated light.

I can only assume that if the earth isn’t the issue I’ve lost power to it somewhere along the line, somehow.

Thanks again.

 

[sparkymarka]

check that there is 240 at the unit …

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I can only assume that if the earth isn’t the issue I’ve lost power to it somewhere along the line, somehow.

That should be relatively easy to confirm!

 

[30Sixteen]

That should be relatively easy to confirm!

Yeah I’ll go back tomorrow and check the power.

I just thought I’d check that I wasn’t missing anything here first.
Thanks.

 

[30Sixteen]

check that there is 240 at the unit …

Yeah I’ll go back and check tomorrow.

Just wanted to make sure there wasn’t something silly I was missing

Cheers.