I purchased Litake led garden spotlights several months ago and they recently started flashing and have now packed up altogether. I’ve checked the wiring and there is power to each light. When I unscrewed the lens I could see it’s not a conventional led bulb. How can I detect and fix what the...
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I’ve got a question about an issue I’m having.
During a kitchen renovation we’ve decided to have open doors fitted to the patio and as a result I’ve fitted 2 way lighting to the kitchen spots.
I’ve also broken in to the permanent feed and neutral going to the spots first and run an...
Hi, i'm hoping someone might be able to help with this before I call an electrician out for advice.
I moved into my house last month and have found that certain lights don't work when other lights are switched on. For example, if the kitchen light is on, then the landing light doens't work. But...
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just wanting some thoughts on this topic. i'm getting some very random blinks from a couple of downstairs lights. i changed most of my bulbs to LED, and from browsing it seems they're a lot more susceptible to current fluctuations etc, there has been one incident when a normal filament...
Electrical isn't my thing though I know just enough to get me into trouble thinking I can do it after coming up with grand ideas.
When I bought my house, it was an older house with the typical cloth two wire wiring. There was one new 3 wire that had been ran to a jacuzzi tub in the bathroom...
On two occasions recently when changing light fittings I've been bored enough (after fitting the light naturally), to read the instructions that came with them...
Two different manufacturers (or at least brands) have had instructions calling for terminals to be covered in insulation tape...
I have a 4-bulb fluorescent light, previously wired for T-12?, now wired for T-8, with a bad ballasts. I think my tombstones are non-shunted. It looks like I can just remove the ballast, direct wire the whites to one side of each of one end's tombstone, and the blacks to the other side of the...
Hello i am looking for a wifi switch that would be suitable for a shed workshop Ip65 rated, that would be able to be wired so that the standard weatherproof light switch for the shed lights will still be able to be used to turn them on and off but that i can also use the wifi switch to turn them...
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I hope someone can kindly advise on an issue I'm having.
I had an Electrician install a couple of these hardwired ring floodlight cameras this morning;
https://en-uk.ring.com/products/floodlight-cam-wired-pro
We have a handful of old motion lights on the property. The...
I've installed an outdoor double PowerPoint on the outside wall of my kitchen and also ran a fused spur from it for lighting in a small outbuilding, all cables in conduit. Now, I have the cable from the back of the outside sockets coming into the kitchen under the sink area, near the back of the...
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Could I get help with wiring this double switch which will be individually switching front and back external lights.
With this switch I have a live source from consumer unit going in, and 2 separate cables going in for front and back lights.
so when I connect live in from consumer...
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I've picked up a pair of these: Hue White and Colour Ambiance Nyro Outdoor pedestal | Philips Hue - https://www.philips-hue.com/en-gb/p/hue-white-and-colour-ambiance-nyro-outdoor-pedestal/1745530P7
Hue Nyro, Pedestal lights. The instructions state that they want to be mains wired into...
I installed 2 LED bulbs into my Genie garage door opener and it caused the microwave to lose power. They are both on the same circuit. When I tested the voltage at the microwave outlet it read 48 volts. That usually means a ground reference problem. Take the bulbs out and the microwave lights up...
I want to use violet lights as the main color other than white as my room light, which means my room will be violet a lot of times, ive googled and some sources say they are fine and some say they are bad for your eyes, so which one is right? Is it bad or good? ( not ultraviolet just normal...
We are working on updating a house from 1981. A little backstory about the house: the previous owner bought it new and, based on stories from neighbors, she almost never used any lights. She’d wake up at sunrise and go to bed at sunset and never turn on any lights. All of the appliances were...
I made a light fitting from driftwood and fitted pendant lights to it and now want to sell it. Do I need to get it CE approved, how do I get this and how much?
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