mercury grey minter

I want to replace my shitty light fitting in my kitchen with 4 little halagen spotlights.Is it straightforward or a horrible job that will cost alot????

Sally

i think its easy but there is some type on halagen light that you cant touch whilst your doing it....but i could be wrong

St3V3_C

It's the sort of job that is piss easy for someone who knows, but has a whole bunch of potential to go wrong if you don't.

Rick

the main problem is that ur new fitting will come with only 2 connections (Possibly 3rd for earth). U will find the rose u are replacing will have something like 7 wires. These basically form part of ur ring circuit and come from one room, and go to the next. Without going into detail, the easiest way is to make a note which wires are connected together electrically, and make sure they stay like that - by using say a terminal block. The wires which u connect to ur new fitting are the ones which currently connect to the bulb.

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it is easy mate ,can u get above the kitchin ceiling as to move cables or are u on about a single fitting with 4 spots on

Nick D

LAMP!!!!! Bulbs go in the garden!!!!!

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bulbs grow and lamps glow

mercury grey minter

4 SEPERATE SPOT LIGHTS.If i gat a sparky in do you think it would be big bucks.Just trying to decide if it,s going to be too much hassle

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where in brum are u ,

droptopRST

Run's in a circuit mate you have wires from the mains then it goes to the switch then to your lights(make sure you turn the electric off first).
Should be a earth to your switch somewhere.

Anonymous

easy enough if there's plenty of slack on the cable's in the celling.
not like when i did mine a couple of month's bk fking council pikey's
just make sure u turn the power off 1'st

EssexBoyRacer

I just been changing all sorts of light fittings and switches at my gfs place.

One of the switches she bought was an intermediate switch instead of the usual 2 way switch.

The intermediate switch has 4 contacts and are as follows:

L1 L1

L2 L2


No Common (COM) connection.

Just purely out of curiousity where would you use this type of switch?

a normal 2 way switch is configured as

COM


L1 L2


If I understood this correctly com is your common live and L1 and L2 are the live outputs depending on what position the switch is (i.e. L1 is live when the switch is up, and L2 is live when the switch is down)

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its for if u have three or more floors and want to have a swich on all of them doing the same lights

EssexBoyRacer

so it works in the same way as 2 x 2 way switches to switch on the upstairs hallway light from both a downstairs switch and upstairs switch. But you use an intermediate switch if you want a 3rd (or more) switch in the circuit?

Lee Reynolds

EssexBoyRacer


3 way switching system....

Lee Reynolds

yep

EssexBoyRacer

confusing shit is this house electrics!

especially where most of my experience has come from car electrics.

Black is not live, black is not live,
yellow/green is not speaker wire, yellow/green is not speaker wire

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Anonymous

roflmfao

dry

If you know a spark, get him to do it. I would charge a mate a couple of pints for a job like that and it won't get fooked up then ! lol

Are you putting in low voltage or 240 volt fittings ?

How many grey wires are there coming into the old fitting ?

mercury grey minter

Thanks for all the info guys,i think i,ll get a sparky to do it instead of killing myself

Anonymous

best way to do it if ur not sure m8

dry

It would be easier for me to do the job than explain to someone how to do it Piss easy when you know you are doing