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Hi,
Newbie here, 3rd year 2330, have to say I am truly shocked (no pun intended) to see the amount of shoddy and dangerous work carried out by "supposedly qualified" people shown here. How do they sleep at night? Sorry..... not going to continue with rant.
Dipzy
How do you mean connected through the light to the switch ? Why do the they do it ? Cause they can & it's a quick buck, they don't give a damn that they're putting peoples lives / property at risk.
hihave you got all the reds in the same terminal? a pic would help.
hicheers, i cant seem to upload any pics, but what i'm lookin to do is put the cieling rose back again and start again; my main prob with this is reconsiling the wires in the correct terminals, i have a simple rose attached on one side is brown and the other is blue, as far as cieling wiring is concerned i have two black wires that i believe were inserted in the section on the left attached to the live; a cpc; and 4 diffarant red wires that were split between the section of the other two termanals; two of course being the swith live and the other two that has to go to the nuetral left set of termanals hope that sounds right:dizzy2:
hi, thx, these are old cables and there is no sleeving, the other thing there is no cord as such, the light is operated by a normal swith, cheersThat doesn't sound right to me, but maybe I'm reading it wrong. You should affectively have four cables, including the lamp cord. Assuming the existing cables are all old colours you would start with loop in and loop out - this is the daisy chain of supply power from one ceiling fitting to the next. So figure out which are the loop in-loop out conductors and connect the two reds to the longer of two middle terminal blocks (live), and the two blacks to the shorter of two middle terminal blocks (neutral). If this is connected correctly - and you haven't added anything else yet - all the other lights on that circuit should now work correctly - once CPCs are connected.
.The next thing to connect is the switch live which - ideally - someone will have marked by putting red (/brown) sleeving on the black - to so it's actually a live. The red goes to same terminal block as other reds, giving a live feed to the switch. The sleeved switch live back from the switch goes to the terminal block on the edge. The brown coloured cord lead goes to this. The blue coloured lead in the cord from the lamp joins the blacks on that terminal block.
All the CPCs should then by sleeved G/Y and connected to the earth block.
Don't forget to hook the two cord leads over the pegs either side of ceiling plate to support the weight of the lamp fitting and shade.
but thank you, i do understand the daisy chane and relise now why the other lights arent working, becuase the connection is not in placeThat doesn't sound right to me, but maybe I'm reading it wrong. You should affectively have four cables, including the lamp cord. Assuming the existing cables are all old colours you would start with loop in and loop out - this is the daisy chain of supply power from one ceiling fitting to the next. So figure out which are the loop in-loop out conductors and connect the two reds to the longer of two middle terminal blocks (live), and the two blacks to the shorter of two middle terminal blocks (neutral). If this is connected correctly - and you haven't added anything else yet - all the other lights on that circuit should now work correctly - once CPCs are connected.
.The next thing to connect is the switch live which - ideally - someone will have marked by putting red (/brown) sleeving on the black - to so it's actually a live. The red goes to same terminal block as other reds, giving a live feed to the switch. The sleeved switch live back from the switch goes to the terminal block on the edge. The brown coloured cord lead goes to this. The blue coloured lead in the cord from the lamp joins the blacks on that terminal block.
All the CPCs should then by sleeved G/Y and connected to the earth block.
Don't forget to hook the two cord leads over the pegs either side of ceiling plate to support the weight of the lamp fitting and shade.
Just back from call out and was faced with this....
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Main fuse had blown right out the cut out.... leaving the fuse carrier pins still in there !!
Different one for me.
Worked along side DNO chaps - removed anything the customers side that had got fire/heat damaged, done all my checks to make sure everything internally ok.
New cut out unit installed ----> power back on (minus a couple of fire damaged circuits)
Back Monday to re-do the rest.
DNO said to send them the bill as it was a faulty cut out.
Very lucky customer, this could have a been a lot lot worst, fire brigade turned up but luckily it had gone out in time
Just back from call out and was faced with this....
View attachment 9750View attachment 9751View attachment 9752
Main fuse had blown right out the cut out.... leaving the fuse carrier pins still in there !!
Different one for me.
Worked along side DNO chaps - removed anything the customers side that had got fire/heat damaged, done all my checks to make sure everything internally ok.
New cut out unit installed ----> power back on (minus a couple of fire damaged circuits + mini CU for shower)
Back Monday to re-do the rest.
DNO said to send them the bill as it was a faulty cut out.
Very lucky customer, this could have a been a lot lot worst, fire brigade turned up but luckily it had gone out in time
Wow, thanks for posting. Has anyone elese heard of a cut out being at fault?
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