New light fitting

rkh38 · Post by **rkh38** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:28 am

Purchased a 'cheap' light fitting from a German supermarket - it has only one connector for L N & E. Three cables in lighting circuit 2no red,black & yellow/green & 1no blue, red & yellow/green.

How can I connect this fitting.

Help greatly appreciated.

RKH38

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:33 am

I'm a bit confused here

?

Have you already removed the old light fitting?

When you say 3 cables do you mean 3 cables or 3 wires?

are you saying that you have-

1 red wire

1 black wire

2 wires that are green/yellow

?

if so the red goes to L

Black goes to N

and the two green/yellows E

rkh38 · Post by **rkh38** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:42 pm

I have removed the existing ceiling light.

there are three cables -

1 - red, black, green/yellow wires
2 - red, black, green/yellow wires
3 - red, blue, green/yellow wires

RKH38

Hinton Heating · Post by **Hinton Heating** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:32 pm

last thing you want to do is remove the old fitting before identifing the wires!!!

cable one

red perm live
black neutral

cable two

red perm live
black neutral

cable three

red perm live (to light switch)
black switch live (from light switch to bulb live, may have a red sleeve on it)

What you need to do is work out which cable is which... do you have a continity tester (buzzer)?

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:03 pm

It is best to note where the wires come from before you remove them from the old light fitting.

Like Hinton Heating says a continuity tester would be really useful to sort out which wires are which.