Replacing Ceiling Light in Garage with Fluorescent Tube
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:26 pm
Hi, I am looking to change from a normal light fitting to a fluorescent fitting in my garage. The light operates from two switches, one at the front and one at the rear of the garage.
I have attached photo's of the existing wiring and also the connection points in the tube fitting. Can someone please advise me which wires coming in to the ceiling connection block go where in the tube fitting. The three connection blocks in the tube are labeled N, E and L (top to bottom). Is it as simple as getting the red incoming wires connected to "L", the black wire to "N" and connecting the yellow and green wire to "E" ?
I am also going to put a fluorescent in the loft. I currently have an inspection lamp at the end of a three core wire and plug it in to a switched socket on the landing when I go into the loft. Is it as simple as just removing the inspection lamp and wiring the fluorescent, brown to "L", blue to "N" and green/yellow to "E"
Apologies if this is rock-bottom basic advice I am asking for but with electrics, some poor souls only ever make one mistake and I prefer not to.
Thanks in advance and kind regards
Ian
I have attached photo's of the existing wiring and also the connection points in the tube fitting. Can someone please advise me which wires coming in to the ceiling connection block go where in the tube fitting. The three connection blocks in the tube are labeled N, E and L (top to bottom). Is it as simple as getting the red incoming wires connected to "L", the black wire to "N" and connecting the yellow and green wire to "E" ?
I am also going to put a fluorescent in the loft. I currently have an inspection lamp at the end of a three core wire and plug it in to a switched socket on the landing when I go into the loft. Is it as simple as just removing the inspection lamp and wiring the fluorescent, brown to "L", blue to "N" and green/yellow to "E"
Apologies if this is rock-bottom basic advice I am asking for but with electrics, some poor souls only ever make one mistake and I prefer not to.
Thanks in advance and kind regards
Ian