I am trying to change over a standard switch to a dimmer switch, please see images attached, the current one is the image with the wiring in, and the new switch is the one with the blue boxes, please can someone help me to wire this onto the new switch, i have tried it already, but it tripped the electrics, maybe I got a wire mixed up?
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i think you need a attention of a spark.
Apart from the switch with the wiring not being complete/correct, if you have already tried the dimmer and connected what appear to be N cables as well as L cables across the dimmer, you may well have fried it!
I can see more wires in the back box.
Where is it now?
Do you have a pic of the original switch before you re wired it? It would have been a like for like swap
One option is those browns are the wires for just 1 switch (not the neutrals) and the 3 core coiled up in the back box is for the other switch. 2 way switched elsewhere
The N Loop terminal of the old switch has no function apart from holding the neutrals together.
As mentioned earlier, they could be in a choc block terminal for all the difference it makes.
wiring the neutral across the new dimmer will have fried it. I bet it’s rather black now and smells of burning??
Without knowing what was in L1 or L2 of the old switch, we can’t advise further.
But it would have been a simple swap over, just by following the same terminal markings.
As mentioned earlier, they could be in a choc block terminal for all the difference it makes.
wiring the neutral across the new dimmer will have fried it. I bet it’s rather black now and smells of burning??
Without knowing what was in L1 or L2 of the old switch, we can’t advise further.
But it would have been a simple swap over, just by following the same terminal markings.
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The terminal marked loop will need a connector block because the dimmer has no connector for it after that it is a wire for wire swap
Have you read any of the replies? Didn't you say that that configuration didn't work? So no dont duplicate it.
As well as the neutrals not being wired into the dimmer, the left hand switch can't possibly be doing anything with it wired like that
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