Dear Forum,
I hope to get some help with wiring of two new light fittings off an existing switched wiring point.
The existing wiring point powers two light fittings and two shaver sockets already. I've uploaded an image showing showing the wiring as they look at the moment. This installation works (as the electrician installed it 6 months ago).
What I'm trying to do is to wire up two additional light fittings. They are as simple as they come, each powering a 60W incandescent light strip. I've uploaded an image of the fitting with and one without the cover on.
Believing that this was a simple exercise, I simple stripped down a flex cable and added a blue wire to the blue wire cluster at the existing wiring head and connected it to one of two screw connections on the new fittings. I did the same with the red wire. Now, there was no third screw connection for the yellow/green wire, so I simply did not wire this up. I then put the power back on and flicked the switch thinking that the new fittings would light up. In stead one blew the lamp and the other simply didn't light up.
I've now disconnected both and am stuck with no lead as to what went wrong. I'm aware that my description makes me sound clueless, which unfortunately is exactly how I feel on this subject. (I do however know about zoning in wetrooms so don't need info on this in relation to this non-IPrated fitting)
Thank you for reading this far and for commenting if you can see the obvious errors I'm making.
I hope to get some help with wiring of two new light fittings off an existing switched wiring point.
The existing wiring point powers two light fittings and two shaver sockets already. I've uploaded an image showing showing the wiring as they look at the moment. This installation works (as the electrician installed it 6 months ago).
What I'm trying to do is to wire up two additional light fittings. They are as simple as they come, each powering a 60W incandescent light strip. I've uploaded an image of the fitting with and one without the cover on.
Believing that this was a simple exercise, I simple stripped down a flex cable and added a blue wire to the blue wire cluster at the existing wiring head and connected it to one of two screw connections on the new fittings. I did the same with the red wire. Now, there was no third screw connection for the yellow/green wire, so I simply did not wire this up. I then put the power back on and flicked the switch thinking that the new fittings would light up. In stead one blew the lamp and the other simply didn't light up.
I've now disconnected both and am stuck with no lead as to what went wrong. I'm aware that my description makes me sound clueless, which unfortunately is exactly how I feel on this subject. (I do however know about zoning in wetrooms so don't need info on this in relation to this non-IPrated fitting)
Thank you for reading this far and for commenting if you can see the obvious errors I'm making.