Hi, Phil, UK, DIY.
I am trying to move two wall lights either side of a fireplace and add a 240v feed for an LED strip lighting driver. We're building a media wall, the LED driver will power LEDs in the niches. The wall light on the left of the fireplace needs to go further left, the one on the right needs to go further right.
I've taken the old light fittings off the wall and chased out the wall to extend the wiring left and right.
The light on the left has live, neutral and earth (red, black, copper) and then a single black on its own. The wiring on the right is the same.
When I test the wiring on the left with a multimeter I get 240v between the single black wire and the neutral (black). I get about 160v between the single black wire and the live (red). On the right hand side I get nothing between the single black wire and the live (red). I get 240v between the single black wire and the neutral (black).
All wires run up the wall and across the ceiling. I'm having trouble visualising how it's wired. I'm presuming the left hand light is the first one in the circuit and the right hand one is wired off that. No clue though and don't fancy hours of trying to figure it out and more hours worrying if I've made it safe.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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I am trying to move two wall lights either side of a fireplace and add a 240v feed for an LED strip lighting driver. We're building a media wall, the LED driver will power LEDs in the niches. The wall light on the left of the fireplace needs to go further left, the one on the right needs to go further right.
I've taken the old light fittings off the wall and chased out the wall to extend the wiring left and right.
The light on the left has live, neutral and earth (red, black, copper) and then a single black on its own. The wiring on the right is the same.
When I test the wiring on the left with a multimeter I get 240v between the single black wire and the neutral (black). I get about 160v between the single black wire and the live (red). On the right hand side I get nothing between the single black wire and the live (red). I get 240v between the single black wire and the neutral (black).
All wires run up the wall and across the ceiling. I'm having trouble visualising how it's wired. I'm presuming the left hand light is the first one in the circuit and the right hand one is wired off that. No clue though and don't fancy hours of trying to figure it out and more hours worrying if I've made it safe.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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