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hi Dingbat, that was my thinking but i have had to join the cables, i have crimped then amalgamated then, exactly as they were at the switch, will this cause the fault? i.e the single black crimped to single black, and the strappers red to red black to black and earth the earthing point.

Ok point taken, if i snapped a little please accept my apologies, i fully understand that the twin and earth should be the strappers, and the singles the common or switching wire, so a theoretical question? if i conected one of the strappers into the common, and the feed cable into L1for...

and your blatant sarcasm is a great help the whole idea of this forum is to provide help one day perhaps i will be as wonderful as you. thanks for your help

you guys are really helpful fools!!!

hi Guys, i have recently moved a two way switch across the other side of the room, they now only work if the downstairs light is switched on first, it is basically a standard set up with the stairway light one switch at the bottom one at the top. now i always assumed you needed three core and...

hi rob, thanks for getting back to me, basically wear the switch used to be i have extended the cables i have a single permanent live which is the neutral and obvioulsy the link between the two, upstairs in the common is a single red wire in L1 is the other live red wire in L2 is the black...

hi guys, can anybody help me, i have moved a two way light switch from one side of the room to the other by a simple cable run from the existing switch point and to the new light i have wired it exactly the same but, only one switch at a time will work, i.e if the downstairs switch turns the...

hi all, can any body help me i have moved an existing switch from one side of the room to the other. but i am only gettin power to the upstairs switch if i put the downstairs switch on first they are not working independantly of each other!! in the upstairs switch i have a single red into the...