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i have three lighting wires from the ceiling one with a green blue and brown wire, one with two brown and a green and one with green brown and blue on the light i have green brown and blue and a dark green when i connect it all up the light stays on and wont switch off how do i connect it up so the switch works

jeff
December 2009
You need 4 terminals:

Put all the greens together in terminal block, all the blues together, one of the browns in the cable with 2 browns with the brown from the fitting, and all the other browns together.

Adam
December 2009

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