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Miguel_92

Today i purchased an Ansell PIR motion sensor light to replace my old one. The wiring outside consists of blue, brown and yellow (with dashes of green on the yellow wire). But inside the new light it has blue, red and brown. Which wires go into which holes in the new lamp? As i'm not an expert with electrics and i wondered why the wires are different in this new lamp (the one i took down was very old and just stayed on because the sensor had gone). Ansell Lighting - https://www.anselluk.com/product/ALWL-PIR-WH that is the lamp. I have taken photos of the wires outside if needed. Thanks
 
Pics of everything would help.
 
Photos of the old light fixture and inside the new one
 

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Looks like just line and neutral

Blue being the neutral
 
your existing wires go into the new light, brown to brown, blue to blue. ignore red. if the new light does not have a terminal for earth, just terminate your gn/y into a separate block connector.
 
So that will be brown to black

The CPC (earth) will connect to the spare middle terminal by the looks of.it
 
Apologies brown to brown

I'm going colourblind
 
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What is in the middle terminal of the new connector block between brown and blue, nothing? The base which that connector fits to looks like metal then again it could be moulded plastic.
 
What is in the middle terminal of the new connector block between brown and blue, nothing? The base which that connector fits to looks like metal then again it could be moulded plastic.

Looks like plastic to me
 
There's nothing in the middle terminal
 
There's nothing in the middle terminal

Dang could be wrong too and there's a connection on the middle terminal to the frame

Thought it was plastic at first glance
 
Hopefully these help
 

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Nah it's plastic no connection to frame
 
it's a class II fitting. does not need earthing. see terminal block bottom corner of instriuctions. brown to brown(L), blue to blue (N). park earth wire in centre terminal.
 
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it's a class II fitting. does not need earthing. see terminal block bottom corner of instriuctions. brown to brown(L), blue to blue (N). park earth wire in centre terminal.
So the earth wire is the yellow one with hints of green on the wire then. And i just stick that between blue/brown?
 

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