smartin1612
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Hello all,
I'm replacing a 3-bulb spotlight with a standard BG ceiling rose but upon connecting, the light won't turn on; the problem is, I can't see why.
We can handle the wiring shortly, but after a day or two of testing - wiring the spot back on, test (it works), replacing with the ceiling rose (it doesn't work), I finally gave up and wired the spotlight to a plug and tested - dropping the 13A down to a 3A first.
The spotlight predictably worked as expected, but upon switching over to the ceiling rose, using the same bulb as the spotlight - it's a 7w bulb, I'm not getting anything, although I am registring power both on the cable terminals and, the light terminals, just no light. It's as though the light terminals are performing a huge resistence that the power could not overcome it and light the lamp.
I have already gone through the motions of junction boxes and switches trying to troubleshoot, which came-up blank - even to wiring the rose direct to the light cicuit and the junction box in the attic [we're still on junction boxes for the lighting circuits rather than using the rose loop] to bypass the switch [using the RCD as a switch], and predictably, I got nothing, hence the direct to wall-outlet approach as a last resort.
Any ideas?
I'm replacing a 3-bulb spotlight with a standard BG ceiling rose but upon connecting, the light won't turn on; the problem is, I can't see why.
We can handle the wiring shortly, but after a day or two of testing - wiring the spot back on, test (it works), replacing with the ceiling rose (it doesn't work), I finally gave up and wired the spotlight to a plug and tested - dropping the 13A down to a 3A first.
The spotlight predictably worked as expected, but upon switching over to the ceiling rose, using the same bulb as the spotlight - it's a 7w bulb, I'm not getting anything, although I am registring power both on the cable terminals and, the light terminals, just no light. It's as though the light terminals are performing a huge resistence that the power could not overcome it and light the lamp.
I have already gone through the motions of junction boxes and switches trying to troubleshoot, which came-up blank - even to wiring the rose direct to the light cicuit and the junction box in the attic [we're still on junction boxes for the lighting circuits rather than using the rose loop] to bypass the switch [using the RCD as a switch], and predictably, I got nothing, hence the direct to wall-outlet approach as a last resort.
Any ideas?
