Hi I recently bought a couple of ceiling lights from ikea (lock is the model name).
I installed one in my hallway which works perfectly but then tried to install one on my landing and it is permanently on, the switches don't turn it off.
The main difference being that the landing light has two switches one downstairs and one upstairs.
The wiring is a bit confusing there is a brown wire and a red wire (I assumed both to be live) and three black wires one of which is made up of only a single thread (so assumed the single thread to be the earth and the other two to be the neutrals).
I have now tried what I feel is all of the combos with the wire i.e just the red and black = perm on, just brown and black = nothing and even tried the single thread as a neutral red + brown and single thread black = tripped fuse box.
Has anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Is it that the light does not work with two switches or that I'm just wiring it up wrong?
Any help would be hugely appreciated.
I installed one in my hallway which works perfectly but then tried to install one on my landing and it is permanently on, the switches don't turn it off.
The main difference being that the landing light has two switches one downstairs and one upstairs.
The wiring is a bit confusing there is a brown wire and a red wire (I assumed both to be live) and three black wires one of which is made up of only a single thread (so assumed the single thread to be the earth and the other two to be the neutrals).
I have now tried what I feel is all of the combos with the wire i.e just the red and black = perm on, just brown and black = nothing and even tried the single thread as a neutral red + brown and single thread black = tripped fuse box.
Has anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Is it that the light does not work with two switches or that I'm just wiring it up wrong?
Any help would be hugely appreciated.