swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Taking as read that I should get someone in who knows what the hell they're doing and stop being a bloody idiot, I find myself proper baffled, and wondered if the CC posse might have thoughts on the matter.
To whit:
I took the light fitting down from the hall when we were having the place replastered, and now I've put it back it doesn't work. And - and here's the funny bit - nor does anything else.
I know how the light fitting connects - I put it up in the first place - but took the precaution of taking a photo before removing it:
When I'd finished everything else in the hall I just put it back as it had been, and switched on, and... nothing. Subsequent ponderings and fiddlings have brought me to what seems a very weird situation, which is that if I test the contacts the brown and blue wires would be using - the extreme outside ones - using an electrical screwdriver, the wee neon lights up orange for both. But if you connect the lamp fitting - or any other electrical device - to those contacts, it doesn't work. I've tested it using my desk lamp, which works perfectly. Nope.
How can this be? And what should I try next (apart from the obvious)?
It occurs to me it might be worth a mention that tho' the neon light does come on, without question, it's not exactly burning bright...mean anything?
Thanks for any feedback. Feel free to go for the obvious. Fill yer boots. Don't thank me, it's what I do.
To whit:
I took the light fitting down from the hall when we were having the place replastered, and now I've put it back it doesn't work. And - and here's the funny bit - nor does anything else.
I know how the light fitting connects - I put it up in the first place - but took the precaution of taking a photo before removing it:
When I'd finished everything else in the hall I just put it back as it had been, and switched on, and... nothing. Subsequent ponderings and fiddlings have brought me to what seems a very weird situation, which is that if I test the contacts the brown and blue wires would be using - the extreme outside ones - using an electrical screwdriver, the wee neon lights up orange for both. But if you connect the lamp fitting - or any other electrical device - to those contacts, it doesn't work. I've tested it using my desk lamp, which works perfectly. Nope.
How can this be? And what should I try next (apart from the obvious)?
It occurs to me it might be worth a mention that tho' the neon light does come on, without question, it's not exactly burning bright...mean anything?
Thanks for any feedback. Feel free to go for the obvious. Fill yer boots. Don't thank me, it's what I do.