Living room spotlights

jonnytrekkie93

This has been a real headscratcher and has even stumped the electrician who I got to have a look at it so I was wondering if anyone here had ever encountered this.

Basically one day my living room spotlights wouldn't turn on but if you pressed the switch enough times they would come on for a blink of an eye moment. So I got the electrician out and he had a look firstly he found it weird that when he removed the bulb and pulled on the cord the other cords didn't move and in fact each cord (there are five bulbs) was independent. He said that it should be a circuit and by pulling one cord another should move which it doesn't. In fact he cant seem to pull the cord much at all.

The odd thing was that he said power was indeed going into the switch and into each fitting but no matter what he did the lights wouldn't come on. The only other odd thing he noted was that there was power going into both wires that went into the fitting. He said that the neutral shouldn't have nay power going into it but he is really stumped. The only option he could think of was going upstairs and lifting the floor boards of the bedroom to see if he could get a better look of the circuit from above.

Maybe someone on here might have encountered this and might know of an easier solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ganga

How long has the light fitting been in the room and who fitted it,maybe the person has wired it up wrong into the ceiling rose.

that

Led bulbs? On a dimmer? 240V bulbs? Or do the bulbs need a transformer? Would put my money on the first two items listed.

Risteard

If phase to Earth and neutral to Earth are both giving you 230V, with 0V between phase and neutral then you don't have the neutral connected.

I would expect an Electrician to have known this.

jonnytrekkie93

So the bulbs are the mr16 or Gu 5.3 there are five of them and there is no dimmer. The electrician said it would be better to put GU10 lights and fittings in and that is what he was doing as part of correcting them. The two options he gave for fixing it was taking the ceiling out and starting again or going in from above by pulling up the master bedroom floorboards to check the circuit. I was hoping that it wouldn't come to either of that as that seems like a very expensive and laborious job.

If you need any more info just let me know.

Owain_Moneysaver

jonnytrekkie93 wrote: »

So I got the electrician out and he had a look firstly he found it weird that when he removed the bulb and pulled on the cord the other cords didn't move and in fact each cord (there are five bulbs) was independent. He said that it should be a circuit and by pulling one cord another should move which it doesn't.

He sounds rather clueless. Proper electricians trace circuits using test meters, not wiggling wires.