Hello, I have read the faq and searched through old posts but either can't find or more likely have found but haven't understood how to solve a problem I have.
I have 2 regular switches controlling one light in my living room and wanted to change them to dimmer switches. Being a bit dumb I went out and just bought 2 dimmer switches just thinking I could replace the old switches with them and all would be fine.
However I've now found out that to have 2 dimmer switches for 1 light I would need a master and a slave dimmer switch, so I decided to just have 1 dimmer switch and 1 regular switch.
The wiring setup was the same in both of the old switches, there was a Red wire in COMM, a Red wire in L1, a Black wire (with no red sleeve) in L2 and an Earth wire.
So I've kept one switch like that but in the dimmer switch I've put the same Red wire in L1 and Black wire in L2 as before and the Red wire that was in COMM into one witha wavy line with another with an arrow on going through it as this is the only other available place as well as the Earth (which I also connected).
Now my problem is this, I can turn the light on with the dimmer switch (it's one where you press it in to switch it on) and I can adjust the light with the dimmer fine, but if I then switch the light off with the regular switch I have to switch it back on with that switch to get it to work.
It is also the same vice-versa, if I switch it off with the dimmer switch I have to switch it back on with the dimmer switch.
Sorry for making such a long post, any help is really appreciated.
Thanks.
I have 2 regular switches controlling one light in my living room and wanted to change them to dimmer switches. Being a bit dumb I went out and just bought 2 dimmer switches just thinking I could replace the old switches with them and all would be fine.
However I've now found out that to have 2 dimmer switches for 1 light I would need a master and a slave dimmer switch, so I decided to just have 1 dimmer switch and 1 regular switch.
The wiring setup was the same in both of the old switches, there was a Red wire in COMM, a Red wire in L1, a Black wire (with no red sleeve) in L2 and an Earth wire.
So I've kept one switch like that but in the dimmer switch I've put the same Red wire in L1 and Black wire in L2 as before and the Red wire that was in COMM into one witha wavy line with another with an arrow on going through it as this is the only other available place as well as the Earth (which I also connected).
Now my problem is this, I can turn the light on with the dimmer switch (it's one where you press it in to switch it on) and I can adjust the light with the dimmer fine, but if I then switch the light off with the regular switch I have to switch it back on with that switch to get it to work.
It is also the same vice-versa, if I switch it off with the dimmer switch I have to switch it back on with the dimmer switch.
Sorry for making such a long post, any help is really appreciated.
Thanks.
