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exterior wall light with hard wiring new build property
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<blockquote data-quote="biggurs" data-source="post: 96162" data-attributes="member: 7320"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>Newbie on this forum so I would like to wish everyone a happy christmas and a happy new year.</p><p></p><p>I have recently moved into a new build property made by persimmon homes. I want to install an exterior wall light, there is already hard wiring for this.</p><p></p><p>When I uncovered the small box housing the wiring I discovered there are FOUR wires.</p><p></p><p>Three wires which are brown, blue and earth and an additional brown one (which is thinner than the rest of the three)</p><p></p><p>But the exterior light i want to install has only 3 wires (brown, blue and earth)</p><p></p><p>So to which three do i connect to??</p><p></p><p>I assume, using logic, that I will connect blue to blue, earth to earth, brown to brown (ashes to ashes if i'm not careful!!!!!!!)</p><p></p><p>and leave the thinner brown (odd one) unconnected (it wont be 'unconnected', it will remain connected to the plastic block which all the wires are connected to, which i presume is the connector)</p><p></p><p>I would be grateful if someone can help me out on this one, otherwise I will have to just wait until after christmas to contact the site manager.</p><p></p><p>Many thanks in advance</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="biggurs, post: 96162, member: 7320"] Hi Newbie on this forum so I would like to wish everyone a happy christmas and a happy new year. I have recently moved into a new build property made by persimmon homes. I want to install an exterior wall light, there is already hard wiring for this. When I uncovered the small box housing the wiring I discovered there are FOUR wires. Three wires which are brown, blue and earth and an additional brown one (which is thinner than the rest of the three) But the exterior light i want to install has only 3 wires (brown, blue and earth) So to which three do i connect to?? I assume, using logic, that I will connect blue to blue, earth to earth, brown to brown (ashes to ashes if i'm not careful!!!!!!!) and leave the thinner brown (odd one) unconnected (it wont be 'unconnected', it will remain connected to the plastic block which all the wires are connected to, which i presume is the connector) I would be grateful if someone can help me out on this one, otherwise I will have to just wait until after christmas to contact the site manager. Many thanks in advance [/QUOTE]
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