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  1. V

    Radial spur to Switch to loft light wiring question

    New DIY'er here so apologies in advance if this seems obvious, but I would rather check first. I want to connect my 2 loft lights to my lighting spur with a switch in the middle. If my spur 1.5mm twin and earth comes into my switch box, can i connect the live wire to the common terminal, with...
  2. T

    Broken stove switch 4 wire need to replace

    Broken stove isolater switch need replace how 4 wire
  3. S

    Quinetic switch anomaly

    First off diy'er so be nice. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with Quinetic switches / receivers? I have an outside security light, installed about three years ago, which is switched on and off via a 2 gang Quinetic switch at my back door. The receiver is fed via an FCU from the...
  4. I

    Caravan Bathroom Light Switch

    Hello everyone Our caravan has a very noisy pull cord in the bathroom which isn’t ideal when there’s a 1 year old sleeping 1 metre away from it! Does anyone know of a surface mounted switch with a circular faceplate to replace the pull cord but utilise the existing backbox? Will fit a square...
  5. D

    How to hardwire oven to cooker switch

    I have a cooker switch in my kitchen on its own circuit (10mm cable). If I buy an electric oven how is it hardwired to the socket? I can wire ring mains for sockets and lights but have never connected an electric cooker before.
  6. M

    Smart Switch 2 gang wiring help

    Hi. I've just bought a Sonoff 2 gang smart switch (UK version) which requires neutral wire. My new house has neutral wires running to the light switches but they're capped off. My question is I'm confused by the number of wires and wondering specifically which live and neutral wire do I use...
  7. HappyHippyDad

    Bathroom light switch, is a 45A shower switch, wired strangely.

    My customer asked me to change her intermittently working bathroom pull switch. When i arrived I saw that it was a 45A shower pull switch purely being used to switch the light on and off. Wired in 1mm. However, there was a conductor in the both the L and N in the supply side, and just one...
  8. HappyHippyDad

    Using a dimmer switch for bathroom light, with a fan.

    My customer would like a dimmer switch for the bathroom lights. The light switch also switches on the fan. They are not worried that the fan will not work if the dimmer switch is switched on when on low. However, I wanted to get some opinions on whether there is any realistic danger involved...
  9. J

    Lighting circuit - black wire?

    Hi, On checking two light switches that operate my outside lights front and rear, both work, I've discovered there is an unused black wire as per the picture, just wondering is this is normal? It is a spare switched live or something? Should it have been connected to L1? Thanks you, James.
  10. T

    Good Quality Ceiling Pull Switch

    Two years ago my bathroom was redone - everything modernised, replaced, redecorated etc. The ceiling pull switch for the light had been in place for 38 years and still worked well but looked a bit old and yellowed. It was made by MK. It was discarded in favour of a more attractive new ceiling...
  11. B

    PIR AND SWITCH Fault

    Hi One of our room lights got reported flashing intermittently and then would not work. I have checked at PIR and only 150v there is 240v at switch at com and L1 when switched. Even though its only 1 way switch. 2 cables coming in grey- com, L1 -brown, L2- black At PIR grey - neut, Black and...
  12. D

    Light switch above radiator

    Hello everybody! Just a quick question, is it good practice to have light switch above radiator? Please see picture attached. Wall is quite small, and in the same wall is radiator going, is it acceptable to have switch where is marked as 350mm from wall corner or should it be moved to the left...
  13. D

    2 gang 1 way light switch wiring when adding a separate light

    I am looking for some advice. I want to add LED lights above wardrobes in the bedroom. I have installed new cable, blocked end to ceiling rose and, changed the existing single switch to a 2 gang switch. Wired existing permanent live to COM 1 and existing switched live to ceiling light to L1...
  14. R

    Wiring Smoke Alarm to Switch

    Hi all, Can someone help me please. I am trying to wire up a 2 smoke alarms to the lighting circuit. I can't wire to the light fitting as there is no constant live so need to add to the switch. I have connected to the switch which gives power to the alarms but as the switch is a 2way for...
  15. P

    Light switch socket

    After decoration needed to change light switch as it had stopped working. Heating engineer changed it over for us! But since it was changed over all of the lights out side and in on the ground floor work by having to have this one switch on! There is another light switch in the same room, can...
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    Wireless Controls for Boiler (Kinectic switch?)

    Greetings, Newbie to the website here, after some advice. Had a job land on my toes by a builder friend of mine. S-Plan boiler to wire up. Turned up and the boiler is outside the house with a 230v supply The water heater, aswell as the two port valves controlling Hot Water and Central Heating...
  17. TimeOutside

    Jon Boat Wiring: Diodes & Transfer Switch

    This is a DIY project. I am not an electrician. I have two LiFePO4 batteries to power the equipment on on a 12 foot plastic jon boat. One battery is 100AH and one is 10AH. The primary use of the 100AH battery is to run the trolling motor. The primary use of the 10AH battery is to run...
  18. S

    Spotlights randomly go to max and dimmer switch stopped working??

    Hi all, Recently moved to a new house and last night, the spotlights in the kitchen randomly went to maximum brightness and the dimmer switched stopped working (i couldnt turn them off or adjust the brightness). All other lights in the house work so i turned off the light circuit for the...
  19. D

    Bedside socket and switch

    Hello everybody! I hope i posted in the rigjt forum. Does anybody knows at what height socket and switch located in the hotel room at the top of bedside?or at what height you would do it guys? Please see picture attached.
  20. K

    Viable method for wiring 2 separately controlled lights?

    Hi everyone I’m learning and experimenting with different ways to wire a lighting circuit in this simulation. I wanted to wire two lights controlled by their own switches from one feed, without using the loop in method at the light fixture. I linked the live common from the first switch on the...

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