2 gang dimmer

[philbo]

The problem i am facing is mainly safety related.

I have 2 rooms working off one 2 gang standard light fitting.I want to install a 2 gang dimmer.

Ok so i removed existing front plate off light fitting. 2 earth leads correctly attached to backplate.all four wires are brown with 2 going to each gang in L1 and L2.

So I open dimmer and the fitting screws to each gang are (wavyline/arrow and L1, L2 )

The wiring is very easily disginguishable for each light...so do I fit each light to the corresponding L1 L2 of the dimmer or place one of the wires into (wavyline/arow ) and one to L1.

I say its a safety issue as the children will use the light and i want it wired correct.

 

[Sparky Ninja]

Are you sure they were originally going into L1 and L2?

 

[Knobhead]

Send a picture, it would help.

 

[telectrix]

some makes of switch have the terminals labelled as L1 , L2 and L3 instead of C , L1 and L2. you need to wire the feed live into wavy line , and the switched lives into the L1's.

 

[Sparky Ninja]

some makes of switch have the terminals labelled as L1 , L2 and L3 instead of C , L1 and L2. you need to wire the feed live into wavy line , and the switched lives into the L1's.

That's kinda where I was heading with it but he logged off.

Expert lingo there mate.

 

[ian.settle1]

Send a picture, it would help.

A larger font size would be help for mine and other peoples eye sight:ack2:

 

[Des 56]

[QUOTE=ian.settle1;318448]A larger font size would be help for mine and other peoples eye sight:ack2:[/QUOTE]

I agree

 

[philbo]

yes...the original lightfitting is standard....double switch.

controls both room lights

consists of 4 x brown wires....2 earths going to backbox.The isolation sleeves are visible so can distinguish each light source.The brown wires from each go into L1 & L2 for each gang.

it's the dimmer that is throwing me off....wavyline/arrow (do we have a name for this please) and L1 L2....

I can understand from above the live goes to wavy/arrow in dimmer but which one is the problem? do i place the original wiring from L1 into this ?

here are pictures

original (2xbrown to L1.....2xbrown to L2...L3 on both gangs is not used)



dimmer

 

[Sparky Ninja]

Follow the advice telectrix gave.

Connect the original L1's to the wavy line, and the original L2's to the new L1's. Make sure it's fully isolated when you do this.