Hi folks, to comply with the new Scottish smoke alarm legislation I bought 3 smoke alarms and a heat alarm. 10 year sealed battery type.
We already had 2 old powered smoke alarms in the hallway, which share an mcb with some of the lights. Kitchen lights are on a sep mcb.
I turned the mcb off and removed both old alarms in the hallway.
I put the terminated cables, red, blue, black and earth in separate choc blocks and popped them up in the ceiling.
However, the 2 earth wires from each flat twin and earth cable, which are circled in the picture, I just cut them very short to terminate them.
I turned on the mcb and the lights are working fine.
My question, is it ok how I did it, as afterwards I thought, “oh I hope I did not mess up the earth continuity“ by just cutting those cables and leaving them unconnected?
Thank you for advise and hopefully reassurance![Smiling face with smiling eyes :blush: 😊](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png)
We already had 2 old powered smoke alarms in the hallway, which share an mcb with some of the lights. Kitchen lights are on a sep mcb.
I turned the mcb off and removed both old alarms in the hallway.
I put the terminated cables, red, blue, black and earth in separate choc blocks and popped them up in the ceiling.
However, the 2 earth wires from each flat twin and earth cable, which are circled in the picture, I just cut them very short to terminate them.
I turned on the mcb and the lights are working fine.
My question, is it ok how I did it, as afterwards I thought, “oh I hope I did not mess up the earth continuity“ by just cutting those cables and leaving them unconnected?
Thank you for advise and hopefully reassurance
![Smiling face with smiling eyes :blush: 😊](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png)