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I've just been replacing an old light fitting with an LED equivalent. It was cheaper than trying to replace the parts that I'd broken when i was trying to change the old bulb.
I got a bit confused by the wires when it came to wiring in the new fixture, but thanks to @hugo7 and @Airhead just a few posts back, I'm about 90% sure I got it right.
Anyway the weird this was this; the light was switched off at the wall, and I thought I'd also isolated it by flipping the breaker, but it turns out I hadn't and my multimeter is fucked.
I screwed in the earth wire, then the neutral wire, then the line wire. Then I tugged them to make sure they were all firmly attached and the neutral wire fell out. The LED lights became slightly illuminated at this point. Is that something I should be worried about? Putting the neutral wire back in made the LEDs dark again, and the light seems to work fine after that.