the old celing rose conumdrum again

[forduki]

OK, I'm tearing my hair out here.

I refitted my kitchen over the last couple of months, and the last thing to do is fit my new light. When removing the last ceiling rose (put new ceiling in), I made sure I labelled the cables clearly:

"live in" - 1 red wire, 1 black wire, 1 earth
"to next rose" : 1 red, 1 back, 1 earth
"switch": I replaced the swtiched live cable: 1 brown, 1 blue, 1 earth

The new lit fitting is a spot set with just live/neutral/earth.

No probs I thought, just fix in a j/b, and run 1 cable down to lit fitting. Fuse blew. I thought I may have wired swtch in wrong, so completely disconnected it. Fuse still blew.

Now I can't work out what's happening. I think I may have assumed that the existing cables were what they're not.

The current (heh) situation is this:

with leccy on, I have power to 1 red cable: the "live in". I then wire in the switch and can switch power on/off to the switched live cable.

What is interesting is at this point I have power to the red (live) wire in the "to next rose" cable even though I haven't connected it in anyway to the j/b??? What's going on???

My marriage is depending on this post. Please help me!

 

[JohnD]

Please tell us:

How many terminals are in the rose

What wires you have connected to which terminal

(I think I know what mistake you have made but I would like to be sure)

ATB

 

[forduki]

cheers for the quick reply ATB, but I've worked it out. The cable I thought was a "to next rose" was actually a switched live or something.

I've now got the live in connected to a switched live in a j/b. When I flick the swtich on, this then makes the "to next rose" cable live, and this I've connected up to the light fitting. And it works. Hooray!