Dodgy Lighting Setup - what switch do i need
Discussion
Gents,
Afternoon, with this lovely weather we're having i thought i'd stay indoors and fix some errors in the house,
Basically when i turn my landing light on the huge strip light in the loft comes on also, therefore burning leccy for no reason...
So in my wisdom, i've snipped the wire that goes into the strip light with the aim to put a switch inbetween.
The wire going to the strip light is a 3 core cable as you would expect, however the switch boxes ive got in the garage are 2-way switches, with a Live then going to L1 and L2,
Now is there any other way / or any switchbox out there that accomodates the Earth and Neutral, as the only way i see it is i'm going to have to connect the Live to switch, then crimp the earth's back together, and the neutral crimped together also.
Hope this makes sense??
Cheers
Gaz
Afternoon, with this lovely weather we're having i thought i'd stay indoors and fix some errors in the house,
Basically when i turn my landing light on the huge strip light in the loft comes on also, therefore burning leccy for no reason...
So in my wisdom, i've snipped the wire that goes into the strip light with the aim to put a switch inbetween.
The wire going to the strip light is a 3 core cable as you would expect, however the switch boxes ive got in the garage are 2-way switches, with a Live then going to L1 and L2,
Now is there any other way / or any switchbox out there that accomodates the Earth and Neutral, as the only way i see it is i'm going to have to connect the Live to switch, then crimp the earth's back together, and the neutral crimped together also.
Hope this makes sense??
Cheers
Gaz
yes appologies for the lack of detail,
It looks like, it goes from the switch (hall landing) up into a ceiling rose in the loft, which then feeds the hall light and loft light, so whenever the landing light was turned on so did the loft light.
Because the loft light was on for lengthy times in the evening, flies we're being attracted to it and swarming the light cover etc, so it had to be sorted.
I used choc block for the earth / Neutral (black), and put the live (red through the switch), all connections are enclosed within the switch box, so it looks sound.
Had to put up those sticky flie traps to get the remaining loafers up there, so hopefully that will be that :S
It looks like, it goes from the switch (hall landing) up into a ceiling rose in the loft, which then feeds the hall light and loft light, so whenever the landing light was turned on so did the loft light.
Because the loft light was on for lengthy times in the evening, flies we're being attracted to it and swarming the light cover etc, so it had to be sorted.
I used choc block for the earth / Neutral (black), and put the live (red through the switch), all connections are enclosed within the switch box, so it looks sound.
Had to put up those sticky flie traps to get the remaining loafers up there, so hopefully that will be that :S
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