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TroubledStart
Hello all,
A long time lurker but only recently registered here. I decided to take it upon myself to replace 2 wired smoke alarms in the house today but have came to a stand still in terms of which colour wires go where and was looking to pick somebodies brains amongst these forums! Its all these new colour coding of wires that have changed over the years which have confused me!
In my downstairs passage we have a smoke alarm with 3 wires as seen in the picture below:
Which wire coming from the ceiling would go to which of the new coloured wires?
2.
The second smoke alarm upstairs is a little more tricky as there are 5 wires coming from the old smoke alarm therefore 2 will go into teach of the connectors for the new 3 wires, however which 2 wires go to each single new wire?
As you can see iv put the 2 reds together, theres 1 yellow, 1 darkblue/black and 1 yellow! Im assuming one is to connect the one downstairs to the upstairs one!
I really would appreciate some sort of guidance as to where which wire connects to the new wire in the junction box!
Thanks in advance! i honestly would be so grateful!
A long time lurker but only recently registered here. I decided to take it upon myself to replace 2 wired smoke alarms in the house today but have came to a stand still in terms of which colour wires go where and was looking to pick somebodies brains amongst these forums! Its all these new colour coding of wires that have changed over the years which have confused me!
In my downstairs passage we have a smoke alarm with 3 wires as seen in the picture below:
Which wire coming from the ceiling would go to which of the new coloured wires?
2.
The second smoke alarm upstairs is a little more tricky as there are 5 wires coming from the old smoke alarm therefore 2 will go into teach of the connectors for the new 3 wires, however which 2 wires go to each single new wire?
As you can see iv put the 2 reds together, theres 1 yellow, 1 darkblue/black and 1 yellow! Im assuming one is to connect the one downstairs to the upstairs one!
I really would appreciate some sort of guidance as to where which wire connects to the new wire in the junction box!
Thanks in advance! i honestly would be so grateful!