fuse blows on one switch.. when you turn the light off!
 

Hi guys,
just taken out a horrible lumo tube from my kitchen and now putting
all back together. Got all the lights downstairs working but one. When
I turn the main fuse back on in the box, the lights are all on, but
when i turn out the odd one at the switch, the main fuse blows.
Its all being done from one ceiling rose. But the light that is
mysteriously blowing has odd wiring, it comes out of the ceiling as
earth, yellow, red and blue. The way the light works is i have the
yellow going to the live and the blue going to neutral and earth to
earth. this is the only way the light turns on, so i am left with a
red that is loose, either way it still blows when you turn it off.
any help would be top!
thanks alot.

fuse blows on one switch.. when you turn the light off!
 

wrote:

Hi guys,
just taken out a horrible lumo tube from my kitchen and now putting
all back together. Got all the lights downstairs working but one. When
I turn the main fuse back on in the box, the lights are all on, but
when i turn out the odd one at the switch, the main fuse blows.
Its all being done from one ceiling rose. But the light that is
mysteriously blowing has odd wiring, it comes out of the ceiling as
earth, yellow, red and blue. The way the light works is i have the
yellow going to the live and the blue going to neutral and earth to
earth. this is the only way the light turns on, so i am left with a
red that is loose, either way it still blows when you turn it off.
any help would be top!
thanks alot.

Those colurs would indicate 2-way switching. Do you have another switch
somewhere that does not appear to do anything?

Dave

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fuse blows on one switch.. when you turn the light off!
 

not as far as i'm aware dave, just the one switch for the light that
keeps blowing...

fuse blows on one switch.. when you turn the light off!
 

wrote:

not as far as i'm aware dave, just the one switch for the light that
keeps blowing...

Well as I said unless a cowboy has done the wiring ( not unknown) those are
the normal colours for 2-way switching.

Dave
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fuse blows on one switch.. when you turn the light off!
 

gort wrote:

wrote:

not as far as i'm aware dave, just the one switch for the light that
keeps blowing...

Well as I said unless a cowboy has done the wiring ( not unknown) those
are the normal colours for 2-way switching.

Dave

Should have said ' were the normal colours'. New colours are different.

Dave
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fuse blows on one switch.. when you turn the light off!
 

anyone have any ideas as to where they should be attached to make the
light work for single switch? still blowing when you turn it 'off' i
guess its back to front somewhere..

fuse blows on one switch.. when you turn the light off!
 

On 8 Feb 2007 12:06:09 -0800, wrote:

anyone have any ideas as to where they should be attached to make the
light work for single switch? still blowing when you turn it 'off' i
guess its back to front somewhere..


Have a look at how the switch is wired, if its double switched you
should see wires to each of the 3 connections.

fuse blows on one switch.. when you turn the light off!
 

On 8 Feb 2007 09:58:06 -0800 someone who may be
wrote this:-

just taken out a horrible lumo tube from my kitchen and now putting
all back together. Got all the lights downstairs working but one. When
I turn the main fuse back on in the box, the lights are all on, but
when i turn out the odd one at the switch, the main fuse blows.

Next time, make a note of which wire is which before you remove the
old fitting.

Now you will have to try and follow the circuit and work out which
wire is which. A diagram of how lighting circuits work may be of
help to you.



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fuse blows on one switch.. when you turn the light off!
 

On 9 Feb, 08:24, David Hansen wrote:
On 8 Feb 2007 09:58:06 -0800 someone who may be
wrote this:-

just taken out a horrible lumo tube from my kitchen and now putting
all back together. Got all the lights downstairs working but one. When
I turn the main fuse back on in the box, the lights are all on, but
when i turn out the odd one at the switch, the main fuse blows.

Next time, make a note of which wire is which before you remove the
old fitting.

Now you will have to try and follow the circuit and work out which
wire is which. A diagram of how lighting circuits work may be of
help to you.

This one should not be hard to fix. Switch has gotten miswired, and
instead of going L to switched L its now L to N or E. Just test the
connections at the lampholder to see which is always on L and which is
the lampholder's switched L connection, note which switch wire colours
go to these 2, and at the wallswitch connect those colours into the
switch.


NT