Intermediate switching

[mark ju]

I have recently wired a light with intermediate switching.
when I turn on the light at one switch its fine, but when I operate the next switch it goes off! Then if I go and operate the next switch it comes on! But then if I go back to the first switch and operate that one the light goes off! What's happening?

 

[Billythekid]

It's terminated incorrectly, misread

 

[Hants-Spark]

Unless I'm reading this completely wrong (which is more than possible) I'd say its working just fine, well done

 

[rich67577]

Sounds ok to me

 

[Brightspark2]

Unless I'm reading this completely wrong (which is more than possible) I'd say its working just fine, well done

I'd agree....

 

[Andy78]

Bit early for a wind up thread isn't it ?

 

[mark ju]

Bit early for a wind up thread isn't it ?

Possibly. Just get fed up with seeing some of the daft questions posted on here. Thought I'd amuse myself for five minutes.

 

[Andy78]

Made me smile too when I saw it. One of the slightly more creative ones.

 

[garrywatters]

Classic wind up! Had me chuckling imagining some Electrical Trainee stood there scratching his head!

 

[mark ju]

Made me smile too when I saw it. One of the slightly more creative ones.

Glad you liked it. First saw light of day several years back when a contracts manager of ours who was a total knob and right up himself went to a works award thingy. I gave him a couple of hours to get stuck into the free booze then text him with the intermediate "problem".
I forgot he was also a worrier and got a rather slurred and panicky telephone call back!
He forgot that I had been tube bashing on the same job for a few months and were nowhere near getting anything live!

 

[Billythekid]

Possibly. Just get fed up with seeing some of the daft questions posted on here. Thought I'd amuse myself for five minutes.

Hook, line, . . .

Realised my mistake too late, had me! Was going to delete my post, but where's the fun in that?

 

[mark ju]

Hook, line, . . .

Realised my mistake too late, had me! Was going to delete my post, but where's the fun in that?

Absolutely. Just a bit of harmless fun to kill a bit of waiting time.

 

[Billythekid]

Absolutely. Just a bit of harmless fun to kill a bit of waiting time.

Sat here between a smirk and snigger, I was so chuffed to get a first response, then I re-read - and it sunk in. I'm stealing this by the way ;-)

 

[Red Flame]

Sounds Like in the intermediate switch the incoming L1 and L2 and outgoing L1 and L2 are crossed swap the L1's around.

 

[Fox]

Sounds Like in the intermediate switch the incoming L1 and L2 and outgoing L1 and L2 are crossed swap the L1's around.

The OP admitted to the post being a wind up! Re-read the first post - it's an intermediate lighting circuit working perfectly!

PS - Welcome to the forum :smiley2: