outdoor light problem

[FilthyMcNastys]

I have to agree with EFLI.

It's pointless faffing around with a second hand fitting that supposedly has instructions that do not give wiring details.

For the cost involved, just replace it and have done. To boot, you get a brand new fitting with a 12 month guarantee.

It is a new one I'm trying to fit so already has got guarantee.

I would put brown to brown then red to the white like the original light but don't want to risk it.

 

[RF Lighting]

I'm amazed we've hit two pages for a simple light with a L&N connection!!

Put your L&N into the two empty terminals, if it works (which it will) then great. If not swap the red and brown wires over.

If you didnd't have your old light, you'd have never even questioned this.

Different manufacturers use different colour schemes.

 

[FilthyMcNastys]

I'm amazed we've hit two pages for a simple light with a L&N connection!!

Put your L&N into the two empty terminals, if it works (which it will) then great. If not swap the red and brown wires over.

If you didnd't have your old light, you'd have never even questioned this.

Different manufacturers use different colour schemes.

I put the other 2 wires into the two empty terminals which it didn't work.

if I swap the red and brown wires over and they aren't in the wrong place it could get nasty surely...

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

will either come on or not. if not you have either a supply fault or a faulty PIR

 

[RF Lighting]

Nope. It'll either work or it wont.

Swap them over. If it works, then great. If it doesn't then take it back to where it came from, and get a new one.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Have you checked the tube is in correctly and tube is okay

 

[FilthyMcNastys]

is there any chance of it blowing the electric box or electric shocks when switching it on?

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

unlikely

 

[Taylortwocities]

this is ridiculous.
Have you used a multimeter to test that there is 230v appearing on the blue and brown wires. Just to check that you haven't blown a fuse or something while you were messing around?

 

[FilthyMcNastys]

I changed the red and brown cables around, it's now working like a perfectly.

thanks for the help.

 

[securespark]

Still smelling a rat....

New light fitting...wires swapped round...instructions don't give wiring details...