hi please can anyone help, I've bought a lidl pir light it has three wires brown (live) blue ( neutral) and red ( which states letter A), coming from my house from my old pir light there are the regular brown (live) blue (neutral) and yellow/green (earth). I am obviously thinking brown to brown , blue to blue but don't understand the red wire labelled A can anyone help
lidl pir light
Mar 08, 2016
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Probebly switched live, so that the light can be switched on all the time instead of only when the PIR senses movement.
If you don't need this feature just insulate and don't use the wire.
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See this diagram
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Your old light will be internally connected to the equivalent of the red A lead, with no external connection. Your new Lidl light has the additional facility of allowing it to control a second external light, connected to the red A terminal. If you don't want to connect an extra light, just ignore it. If it's a bare wire, wrap it in insulating tape.
Thanks Chris so just to confirm I just connect the brown to brown blue to blue leave the red wire alone (its in a connection box) where will the earth wire go theres no place for it in the new pir thanks tracy
Yup. If there's no terminal for the earth (y/g) wire, just tape over the end and make sure it can't touch either the brown or blue connections. I assume the new PIR is all plastic, so an earth connection isn't necessary.
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