Light fitting

maxamillius

Came across this fitting today,it wasn't working,when I opened it this is what I found,!

From the light fitting itself there is the earth fly lead which is connected to the live from the wall,then there is the live and neutral from the lamp holder which are connected to the earth and neutral at the wall!

Mental I know,would I be right in saying this fitting was not live due to the neutral being connected to the earth and it taking the fault current that way?it also did not trip out the lighting circuit!

Steve

It wouldn't have worked, the fitting (if it had a metal case) would have been lethal, and it wouldn't have tripped anything because there is generally no RC protection on a lighting circuit.

Whoever wired that should be in jail.

maxamillius

Steve wrote: »

It wouldn't have worked, the fitting (if it had a metal case) would have been lethal, and it wouldn't have tripped anything because there is generally no RC protection on a lighting circuit.

Whoever wired that should be in jail.

That's the thing,the metal case was not live?!

Sir Arthur Daley

I remember a few years ago working getting a shop ready and putting up chandelier type fittings, switched them on and two of them never lit. They were wired incorrectly, the flex that was used its cores were only distinguishable from a trace line along themselves.
Shop had to open so wired the light incorrectly according to colours to get it correct and this may be your case here.

maxamillius

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

I remember a few years ago working getting a shop ready and putting up chandelier type fittings, switched them on and two of them never lit. They were wired incorrectly, the flex that was used its cores were only distinguishable from a trace line along themselves.
Shop had to open so wired the light incorrectly according to colours to get it correct and this may be your case here.

I have seen that before alright with cheap Chinese fittings,I think in this case the light was working fine,it was taken off to straighten it up and then when being put back in place it was wired incorrectly,I'm just trying to clarify if the neutral had become the earth and that is why the fitting was not live?!

I once found a chrome one way switch where a 2 way switch should have been.
The DDIYer had decided to put one of the strappers into the earth lug on the face plate because it had to go somewhere right??
They kept getting lifted off it obviously!
Mad