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    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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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.
  8. 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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    Replaced 3 gang light switch - switches now on when off

    Hi everyone, Just replaced a plastic 3 gang light switch for a metal flat plate. Took photo of old wiring layout and rewired exactly the same. Everything works except now the light switches are the wrong way round i.e. the lights are on when the switch is in the 'off' position and vice versa...
  10. D

    Dimmer switches not turning off- sometimes

    Hi there, I have a switch plate on my wall with 4 dimmer switches and 2 standard switches. On random occasions one of the dimmer switches will refuse to turn off. I'm happy to get an electrician to repair, but I want to understand the problem. It doesn't happen all the time, and not always the...
  11. M

    IS A CONSUMER UNIT WITH A MAIN RCD switch compliant

    hello quick question. in a industrial setting would it be ok to fit a new consumer unit with a main switch RCD or do circuits need to be individually protected? wether there is only 2 circuits or 12 does this matter ? thanks for your time
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    How to solve mystery of unrelated switch allowing function of unreliable switch (DIY)

    I'm new here, a DIY member. I hope I'm in the right place. About 18 years after it was built, the following problem started with the light switches for our foyer light. The diagram shows the setup of switches on the front half of our modular house. The problem is that sometimes, maybe once a...
  13. Rooster Carpentry

    Wiring 6 prong rocker switch

    Hi, I won't bore you with the back story, but I need some advice on how to connect a rocker switch for a Stanley Fatmax vacuum (please see photos below). It is meant to have three settings: Off, On, and On through the power take-off plug. Through a lot of trial & error (& tripped breaker...
  14. Ridwaan1998

    How to connect these switches? Transformer etc

    Hey I’m finding it hard to connect these would love some guidance on how to connect wire colours
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    Switch questions

    Good morning. Help please. I need to replace a switch for my 9.5kw shower. Can anyone tell me if a 50amp double pole switch would be suitable for this. Thank you
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    Main switch SPD pen fault wiring

    Hi all, Customer is buying a Tesla ev and he was thinking of getting a Tesla charger but he said to give him 1 quote without a charger (him buying Tesla charger) and 1 quote with me supplying a charger… The Tesla charger hasn’t got pen fault detection and I’ll need to fit one. The existing CU...
  17. tony9i9i9i

    Light switch with overrun timer...

    I went to swap a fan for a customer, they wanted a humidistat one. When I dropped the old fan I found it was wired with T&E. I explained there was no permanent live so no overrun was possible, and that I'd either have to make a lot of mess running a three-core or they'd be best off leaving the...
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    Lights Flickering when turning on at different switch

    Hi, wondering if anyone could help me. The main light in my kitchen works off two different switches, one on either end of the room. One of the switches is a 3 gang switch which also connect to some spotlights and outside lights. When turning on and off at one switch it is fine, but then if you...
  19. M

    Cooker control switch with socket

    Does anyone know of a manufacturer who makes a cooker control module with a socket outlet in the vertical orientation? This is with the switch above the socket, not side by side.. Thankls for any help
  20. S

    Connecting a socket to a switch?? In kitchen

    Hi guys Is it possible to spur a socket from this switch? This is a switch for a combi boiler. Thank you.

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