Outside light fault from switch fused spur

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Sorry for my awful descriptions, yeah I should have got the light myself.

I will investigate more when I go see the customer.

It's halogen not led.

Thanks for all your help

 
TBH what worries me here more than anything else is the competency of the "electrician", can't understand the basics of connecting a fitting that has only 3 wires, I would be a bit more sympathetic if it was a case of connecting a stand alone pir to an existing fitting. A standard fitting has 3 connections, L = live= either brown or red, N = neutral= blue or black and E= earth = green/yellow or bare copper with a green and yellow sleeving, it's not rocket science, as for the fused spur, well that only acts as a point of isolation if it is switched on then the fitting should work, assuming that the bulb isn't knacked or not located correctly.

Sorry to be so savage but I'm getting sick to the back teeth of people just diving in and thinking they are electricians.  I was at an event recently and my mate and I were looking at test equipment on a stand, between us we had every bit of kit they were selling, the guy asked what we did as "with that amount of kit you can't be normal electricians" to which my mate replied "no you're right, we're proper electricians!"

These days everything is specialist, "oh no we don't do alarms, cctv, access control. etc, that's specialist" is the common cry. Well no actually it isn't, Back in the day an electrician did every aspect of the job, this "specialist" attitude is just a cover for a lack of proper training and a justification for selling more courses and such like.

 
Agree entirely Phil. 

If polticians understood that there is more to being an electrician than what's involved in wiring a plug then maybe they'd be more interested in promoting the trade as a technical asset to colleges and provide better awareness for apprenticeships. 

 
Your all welcome to slate me and take the piss. I simply came for advice before I went back to the job.

I'm sure it's simple just the lamp or the setting. Not once did I ask if I had connected the cables correctly or say I put the live in the earth or something daft. Just wanted ideas to help fault find this quicker when I go back. However I appreciate all positivity. Of course I would check the lamp, then settings before moving to anything else, I will think again before asking for and advice again here. 

 
Your all welcome to slate me and take the piss. I simply came for advice before I went back to the job.

I'm sure it's simple just the lamp or the setting. Not once did I ask if I had connected the cables correctly or say I put the live in the earth or something daft. Just wanted ideas to help fault find this quicker when I go back. However I appreciate all positivity. Of course I would check the lamp, then settings before moving to anything else, I will think again before asking for and advice again here. 
Lee, there is no moving on to anything else, remove back from fitting, have you 240v between L & N, yes, is lamp fitted correctly and not blown, yes, is pir set correctly, yes. Fitting is faulty, supplied by client so their problem, bill them for work done and that's it. if they want it taken down and refitted when they get a replacement that is an extra! You really don't need cheapskate clients who think they can save money by supplying carp gear then expecting you to sort it out when it goes wrong, hells teeth man, you'll be fitting Swann cctv systems next.lol

 
Changed the fitting all working.

I think I was just lacking confidence in my work and looking deeper than needed for a fault

 

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