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How to wire this ceiling light?
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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Hudson" data-source="post: 485417" data-attributes="member: 1607"><p>NO. if you do that it will go bang when you switch it on. On you photograph there are TWO neutrals not three. And the lives have a "PERMANENT" live from the supply and "SWITCHED" live from the light switch. It is just the switched live that goes into the light fitting, Otherwise your light would always be on all the time! (most likely the blue wire with brown sleeve over it). There will be at least TWO permanent lives one from the supply and one going to the switch. The matter we cannot know as we are not there, is if the other cable is just a supply to a second light you mentioned, or the full supply ongoing to the rest of the circuit? That would govern where the third live goes to if it is a switched or permanent live out.</p><p></p><p>Doc H.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Hudson, post: 485417, member: 1607"] NO. if you do that it will go bang when you switch it on. On you photograph there are TWO neutrals not three. And the lives have a "PERMANENT" live from the supply and "SWITCHED" live from the light switch. It is just the switched live that goes into the light fitting, Otherwise your light would always be on all the time! (most likely the blue wire with brown sleeve over it). There will be at least TWO permanent lives one from the supply and one going to the switch. The matter we cannot know as we are not there, is if the other cable is just a supply to a second light you mentioned, or the full supply ongoing to the rest of the circuit? That would govern where the third live goes to if it is a switched or permanent live out. Doc H. [/QUOTE]
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