ᐅ New LED Setup – Two Lamps on One Circuit

Hello everyone

Recently, I installed a bathroom mirror with additional lighting. I also replaced the existing fixture with a new one.
The old fixture used traditional incandescent bulbs, while the new one is LED: Yafido LED 12W bathroom light, 1000 lumens, 50cm (20 inches), 230V, 3000K.
Attached is the wiring diagram (left is before, right is after).
Now, after about a week, the new light has broken, and the circuit breaker tripped.
Did I wire something incorrectly?

Regards
Chris

Short circuits don’t take a week to cause a short. It sounds more like there is an issue with the new lamp. The brown wire is basically disconnected – or how should the picture be interpreted? Is red the live wire? That is not a common color coding for multi-core cables. Does the lamp on the mirror turn on together with the other lamp?

chgerber76 schrieb:

Hello everyone,

Recently, I installed a bathroom mirror with integrated lighting. I also replaced the existing fixture with a new one.
The old fixture used traditional incandescent bulbs, and the new one is an LED: Yafido LED 12W bathroom light, 1000 lumens, 50cm (20 inches), 230V, 3000K.
Attached is the wiring diagram (left: before, right: after).
Now, after about a week, the new lamp broke, and the circuit breaker tripped.
Did I connect something incorrectly?

Regards,
Chris

The brown wire is disconnected.
The mirror lamp turns on together with the other lamp, correct?

And is the red cable really coming from the distribution box? Maybe try connecting everything to brown first. Basically, not much can be wired wrong if the earth, neutral, and phase of both lamps are connected together. Unfortunately, I can’t help further with this. Is it the circuit breaker or the residual-current device (RCD) that trips? The latter usually indicates moisture. But always remember: electricity can make you small, black, and ugly.

Is this an older building? In that case, "red" is the ground wire. Black is the live wire, and gray is the neutral conductor. In newer wiring, blue is the neutral conductor and brown is the live wire.

A fault that appears later can also be caused by operating a different switch or an outlet.

Try testing it with a measuring device.

Red can indicate either earth (ground) or live (phase). The wiring is probably 50-60 years old.

The simplest explanation is that the lamp is faulty and caused the fuse to trip when it failed.