Good afternoon folks!
Just thought I'd quickly install and wire up my girlfriends new exterior light. Ha. If only it was that easy.
It's a new build and a four core cable with black, grey, brown and bare wires had been left capped by the front door. That four core cable goes to a switch in the porch. It wasn't connected to anything and was just connected to a connector block. Going into the COMMON on the rear of the exterior light switch is a short brown live wire from the L2 of the adjacent porch light switch. So the unconnected four core cable has a brown wire, a black wire with brown sleeving, a grey wire with blue sleeving, and the bare wire has yellow/green sleeving and is already in a connector block with numerous other earths where they all terminate. So, two questions!
1) to connect the rear of the switch up, does brown into COMMON and black with brown sleeving into L1 make sense? There is already a connector block with other blue sleeved wires terminating in it, does this grey wire with blue sleeving need to terminate in there too?
2) when it comes to installing the exterior light, obviously brown goes into live and bare into earth. But which wire goes into the neutral on the fitting? Black? What happens to the grey wire?
Cheers for all your help. I'll get you a beer.
Just thought I'd quickly install and wire up my girlfriends new exterior light. Ha. If only it was that easy.
It's a new build and a four core cable with black, grey, brown and bare wires had been left capped by the front door. That four core cable goes to a switch in the porch. It wasn't connected to anything and was just connected to a connector block. Going into the COMMON on the rear of the exterior light switch is a short brown live wire from the L2 of the adjacent porch light switch. So the unconnected four core cable has a brown wire, a black wire with brown sleeving, a grey wire with blue sleeving, and the bare wire has yellow/green sleeving and is already in a connector block with numerous other earths where they all terminate. So, two questions!
1) to connect the rear of the switch up, does brown into COMMON and black with brown sleeving into L1 make sense? There is already a connector block with other blue sleeved wires terminating in it, does this grey wire with blue sleeving need to terminate in there too?
2) when it comes to installing the exterior light, obviously brown goes into live and bare into earth. But which wire goes into the neutral on the fitting? Black? What happens to the grey wire?
Cheers for all your help. I'll get you a beer.