Tazzy666uk
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Hi, I am just after some thoughts on the below. I am getting the electrician back but I would like to be a bit more clued up.
So i have a newly wired kitchen with a 2 gang 2 way light switch. Only one switch is wired as will become apparent). The kitchen lights work fine and have a switch at each end of the room. I had 3 outside lights fitted when it was being built, but only one cable was run to the switch so presumably they are joined in the roof.
The lights didn't have bulbs when fitted so the electrician left the cable coiled in the backbox. My husband fitted the bulbs and thought it was a simple case of connecting the brown and blue across the second switch. He did this, and when he switched the power back on, nothing happened, but when he then flicked the light switch that he had just wired, there was a big flash from the switch and the main board light circuit tripped. The switch is a rocker one and it doesn't rock anymore either... Obviously this is not meant to happen, but does it sound like something wired wrong beyond the switch, or is it possible this is not actually a switch wire?
Thanks, Cassey x
So i have a newly wired kitchen with a 2 gang 2 way light switch. Only one switch is wired as will become apparent). The kitchen lights work fine and have a switch at each end of the room. I had 3 outside lights fitted when it was being built, but only one cable was run to the switch so presumably they are joined in the roof.
The lights didn't have bulbs when fitted so the electrician left the cable coiled in the backbox. My husband fitted the bulbs and thought it was a simple case of connecting the brown and blue across the second switch. He did this, and when he switched the power back on, nothing happened, but when he then flicked the light switch that he had just wired, there was a big flash from the switch and the main board light circuit tripped. The switch is a rocker one and it doesn't rock anymore either... Obviously this is not meant to happen, but does it sound like something wired wrong beyond the switch, or is it possible this is not actually a switch wire?
Thanks, Cassey x