2 gang light switches

[shark sandwhich]

i can find everywhere how to wire up a lamp with 2 or more switches, but i cant find a diagram of how to wire up more than a single gang light switch anywhere.
Took one apart but didnt help me!

anyone got any diagrams for example 3 different lamps dropping to 3 gang switch?

 

[Spark123]

What are you trying to do? A two gang lightswitch is the same as having two separate single light switches next to each other, the gangs are completely separate from each other.

 

[shark sandwhich]

i opened one and was sure it had inter-connections.

common connected to the gang before

 

[Steve]

no it didnt. look on the back of it, there will be 3 triangles, each formed by the words COM, L1 and L2. One of them might be upside down in respect to the other 2. Each triangle represents a single 2-way switch.

 

[Spark123]

You need to make any interconnections yourself with loops of wire on the back.

 

[shark sandwhich]

thats what i meant, why short pieces of wire interconnecting ?

 

[breezer]

so that the other circuit also has a live feed

 

[dingbat]

Shark, go back to the diagrams of lighting circuits and figure out how and why they work as circuits and how and why they are switched the way they are.

When you've got this sorted out in your head you'll understand what to do. Until you do understand what you're doing I would strongly recommend you don't attempt it.

If you can't understand it you should not be allowed near electricity... even as a user, if I had my way!