Electric help for a moron

[clarksonisawilly]

Just trying to wire in a new light for the bedroom, if I turn it on there's a lot of buzzing from the (dimmer) switch, and some more from the light unit. The light flickers, and the bulbs are very dim. Have I been a mong and wired it up wrong? I tried swapping the live and neutral wires around to see if that helped. But it didn't. It was the same.
The loop wiring looks rather weird, but that is how the old light (which was just a hanging bulb affair) was wired and that worked fine. I have refitted the old light and it works fine with this setup.

What have I done wrong?

[mickk]

Your neutral is wired in your live connection, what fitting are you trying to add?

[andy_s]

....hello....any one there.....?


Oh dear.

[clarksonisawilly]

Sorry I died. The leccy got me.



I'm aware the live and neutral wires are the wrong way round, I swapped them to see if it would work.

Just going to try the fitting on a non dimmer switch to see what happens.

[clarksonisawilly]

Panic over, it works, just not with a dimmer switch. Thanks for the help people

[headcase]

mickk said:

Your neutral is wired in your live connection, what fitting are you trying to add?

Its a bulb, it dosent matter

[clarksonisawilly]

anonymous said:

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Cheap halogen multi bulb light, electronic dimmer switch that cost more than the light! Don't know about the ratings.
I'll stick the light in another room as I've grown rather fond of the dimmer

[blueg33]

Is it a low voltage light with a transformer you have fitted? Eg halogen etc, these often need to be dimmer compatible or need a special dimmer

[ndg]

Errm, the earth doesn't appear to be looped through. All earth's should go to one terminal.

N.

[Raverbaby]

headcase said:

mickk said:

Your neutral is wired in your live connection, what fitting are you trying to add?

Its a bulb, it dosent matter

Unless its an Edison screw, centre pin should be live

[mickk]

Raverbaby said:

headcase said:

mickk said:

Your neutral is wired in your live connection, what fitting are you trying to add?

Its a bulb, it dosent matter

Unless its an Edison screw, centre pin should be live

In my defence i thought the op was wiring in a different fitting, maybe a transformer type.



Thats my excuse anyway.

[Ganglandboss]

You need to get a spark in to check that. Why have you split the earths? There is a very high chance much of your lighting circuit doesn't have a protective conductor.