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Change ceiling light with 3 red wires in one socket?

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:49 pm
by simmy
Hi All

I was about to change a ceiling light and found it had 3 red wires put together in one socket, 3 black together in one socket, (one came from a white cabled wire) and the other socket had two red in it (one of those came from a white cable). The light switch for the old fitting turned the old light on and another light further on.

The new ceiling light has a blue and a brown wire and I can see where these go into the connectors, but I only have a plastic connector attached to new new light and after putting the blue and brown wires in have 6 connectors left with 8 wires still to place, any ideas?

Re: Change ceiling light with 3 red wires in one socket?

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:45 am
by chriscba
Hi

look at the reply below from Mr White