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bornagain

I have three light switches indoors, 2 for lights indoors and 1 for the outside light. When I removed the cover off the light outside I see 2 blue wires going to the bulb, 2 brown wires wired together but not attached to anything and the 2 earths earthed to the light cover.

1: What are the brown wires actually doing?

2: 2 blue wires going to a bulb, what's that all about?

I understand what wires go where on the senor by looking at the diagrams, but it says the brown should be going to the bulb after the senor.

Please help!
 
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Blues will be 1 switched live (should have a sheath or marker on it which would be brown to show it is a switched live and the other is the neutral. Browns *MAY* be lives which are looped there for some reason or other.

you could do with using a tester to work out what is what, as you are going to be hard pressed to work out which wires are doing what without one.
 

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