Wiring Pendant light fitting issue

[Revelator80]

Hi,

I am replacing some old halogen fittings with pendant light fittings in my front room. There are two fittings that are operated from two switches. When I took off the old fittings, the arrangement was so dissimilar to the guidance I had that I did not take a note of the layout and proceeded to follow the instructions. However I had a spare wire! After researching, it looks like one of the fittings has two 2-core and earth cables and a 3-core and earth cable, the other has one of each.

Can anybody advise how the wires should be arranged in the fitting? The wire colours are:

2-core and earth - Red, Black and Earth
3-core and earth - Red, Blue, Yellow and Earth.

I'm at a loss as, whenever I try at the moment, the switches in the front room no longer work and the light switch in the kitchen now operates the front room while the kitchen lights do not work at all!!

Cheers
David

 

[mayfair]

Thats the sort of help and advice we should be proud to give

sounds like the three core is the switch cable , red / brown will feed the switch (common) yellow/black and blue/grey will be the return .
one will do the first light and the other will switch the second which has been joined at the first fitting.
If this means nothing as in double Dutch then you really best to get a sparks to sort it mate .

 

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