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DavieGarden. I appreciate your help, but you have made an assumption. Thanks securespark. Now back to the subject. Breezer tells me that l1 and l2 make no difference. So on the instructions from this site, I connected main live and yellow (from 3 core) to l1. red from 3 core and...

No, I have red into common, yellow in l1 and blue in l2. Is this my problem? So how should it be a dimmer end?

I have a yellow, blue, red and one earth. I will now put a normal (non dimmer) 3 gang switch here. At the original switch end (where I have the dimmer), I have 2 sets of wires (plus the two way set mentioned above). One red to the switch (constant live) and the red from the other set in...

Thanks. So how would I resolve the connection problem (black turns to live). Sorry to be a pain.

Hi breezer. Thanks for the info. Do you not think this is too complicated for a beginner for myself? WOuld it just be easier to change one set of dimmers to a none dimmer three gang or something similar? Is this possible even?

Hi and thanks Breezer. What a derr brain I know. So what do i need to do? Can I just purchase some different dimmer switches? Or have I just wasted alot of time feeding the extra wires through? If i can change the switches, there is still the problem of the black turning live How...

Hi guys, Just registered to obtain some help. Must begin by saying that I have found your website to be gr8. I have no real clue about electrics, but I am willing to learn. I originally had a one gang one way light switch in my room. I have inserted 12 240 watt downlights from a 3 gang...