Hello
I have got into a bit of a pickle with a job that i thought would be fairly straight forward. In my garage I have two fluorescent strip lights, with two light switches (one by the garage door and one by a door at the opposite end). I wanted to install a ring camera, so thought I could just spur off the supply to the light switch at one end of the garage and use a 3 way junction box to supply power to the camera (the supply is just in trunking so easily accessible).
The light switch had three cables going to it and I figured out which one was the supply and the other two going to the two light fittings. Cut the source feed and found it is a 3 core + earth cable. I continued anyway and wired it all up into the junction box. Joined the brown > brown live wires, the neutral greys I connected together with neutral going to the camera and that left me with the two black wires, which I just connected back together.
It all worked ok, until I turned the lights on - this is when the camera turned off. Turned the lights off again, camera came back on. Is there any way this could work or do I need to get someone to run a new feedback just for the camera as the supply for the lights just isn't suitable.
Have disconnected it all and put it back to the original configuration for now, but hoping someone might be able to help advise.
Thanks
I have got into a bit of a pickle with a job that i thought would be fairly straight forward. In my garage I have two fluorescent strip lights, with two light switches (one by the garage door and one by a door at the opposite end). I wanted to install a ring camera, so thought I could just spur off the supply to the light switch at one end of the garage and use a 3 way junction box to supply power to the camera (the supply is just in trunking so easily accessible).
The light switch had three cables going to it and I figured out which one was the supply and the other two going to the two light fittings. Cut the source feed and found it is a 3 core + earth cable. I continued anyway and wired it all up into the junction box. Joined the brown > brown live wires, the neutral greys I connected together with neutral going to the camera and that left me with the two black wires, which I just connected back together.
It all worked ok, until I turned the lights on - this is when the camera turned off. Turned the lights off again, camera came back on. Is there any way this could work or do I need to get someone to run a new feedback just for the camera as the supply for the lights just isn't suitable.
Have disconnected it all and put it back to the original configuration for now, but hoping someone might be able to help advise.
Thanks