Lighting fault!

[SSE]

One of the boys I go to college with has a strange lighting fault. I've copied & pasted the e-mail he sent below to see what you guys think. I'm pretty puzzled tbh.

Right basically I've wired 4 spotlights with LED lamps. The wiring goes like so; feed & neutral to first switch with switch & neutral out to first light on to 2nd & so on. Neutrals connected at back of switch in connectors. When I turn the lights on everything turns on fine, when I turn them off it's as if they're turning off but not completely. The lamps are ever so slightly lit. When I turned them on I tested between L&E, L&N & N&E & everything was as it should be. When I turned it off however, I was getting 80v between Neutral & earth. Can't for the life of me understand what's wrong?! I disconnected the 3-core & earth so that it was just switching from the first switch & it was switching on & off properly?? Any ideas?

Any ideas chaps?

 

[DPG]

Or even better, solder and sleeve with heatshrink sleeving. Daz

 

[SSE]

They look like 2 * 140ohm 1/4W resistors in series, quite surprised they have not burnt out as you would take about 180W through them. Do they get hot? How did you insulate the leads as they will be at 230V?

I really ain't sure what size they are, I'll ask the guy who supplied them. Not sure if they get hot to be honest. He's only had the lights on once to check this cured the problem, he's not completely finished yet. I think he was possibly goin' to heatshrink the ends than go into the live & neutral & leave the other ends as they were terminated in a connector block. These are all housed in acasing along with the light connector blocks so not as if anyone can touch it.

Or even better, solder and sleeve with heatshrink sleeving. Daz

He's planning the heatshrink I think but was just gonna leve the other ends in the connector.


I'm actually quite surprised that manufacturers don't supply something with the lights to combat this problem. I know of someone else who had this problem but he's quite happy to leave them as they are as he says they're not harming anyone!