Changing light fixture, no earth wire

shu32876

I can't pull it out much, this is the closest I could get:
https://imgur.com/a/Ljawe9T

thorganby

shu32876 wrote: »

I can't pull it out much, this is the closest I could get:
https://imgur.com/a/Ljawe9T

There is a green/yellow wire visible in that picture that you must be able to connect to if you pull it down.

shu32876

thorganby wrote: »

There is a green/yellow wire visible in that picture that you must be able to connect to if you pull it down.

From what i see yellow wire is going in where the Brown wire is coming out, which is a bit weird for me. But to be honest I don't know much about these circuits, this is the first light fixture that I was trying to change.

thorganby

shu32876 wrote: »

From what i see yellow wire is going in where the Brown wire is coming out, which is a bit weird for me. But to be honest I don't know much about these circuits, this is the first light fixture that I was trying to change.

No the brown wire is connected to a black wire with red sleeving showing that it is a live wire.

The yellow/green looks like it actually goes behind connector block 1.

There are at least 3 connector blocks and you need to fish them all out of the hole that they have obviously been pushed up into to, so that you can fit your new light.

Risteard

The existing wiring is a mess so realistically this job is one for a qualified electrician. Get an NICEIC Approved Contractor to sort this mess out for you (or quite possibly advise periodic inspection and testing of the entire installation).

Rodders53

Risteard wrote: »

The existing wiring is a mess so realistically this job is one for a qualified electrician. Get an NICEIC Approved Contractor to sort this mess out for you (or quite possibly advise periodic inspection and testing of the entire installation).

I have to agree here.

While this is probably not that much of a mess and would be simple to sort out for many on this DIY section of the forum, the need to have asked the question and not spotted the choc block connections originally, means the OP just isn't competent to do this work.

Know your limitations!