j0hnryder said:
Ban All Sheds - Or should I call you Mr V. Meldrew. I did not ask YOU personally to offer any advice (if you call it that), so why carry on in such an insulting, sarcastic, self righteous manner.
You came here asking for advice and repeatedly refused to listen to it. I was not rude, sarcastic or self-righteous - I merely summarised your intransigence and
agreed with your decision (which you had already stated twice) to get an electrician in. If quoting your posts and agreeing with your decisions is insulting, sarcastic or self-righteous, I'd hate to see how you react to someone who argues with you.
One of the functions of this forum is for users to gain access to others who may be more experienced or knowledgable in specific areas of expertise. And thats exactley what I have done.
j0hnryder said:
This is a diagram of the switch
Followed by 7 posts from people who are more experienced and knowledgeable than you questioning the accuracy of your drawing. How did you respond to this advice?
j0hnryder said:
The switch setup diagram is not wrong. 100% correct. Its a simple thing to draw
Another post telling you that it was impossible for a switch wired as you had drawn it to work in the way you said it did, and again telling you you'd missed a wire off. Did you listen that time?
j0hnryder said:
Sorry but I've double checked it and checked it again. The diagram is right
A post from me showing the switch internals, hoping that by seeing what a switch wired as you had drawn would do (and not do), you would finally accept that what everybody had been telling you was true.
j0hnryder said:
I HAVE missed something off the diagram. There is another red and black wire
There is little point in you gaining access to others who may be more experienced or knowledgable in specific areas of expertise if you refuse to accept what they are telling you.
However, your comments were ignored for the most part because they were largely unconstructive.
My first post, having seen the back and forth between one person who didn't know what he was doing, and others who were struggling because of incomplete information was to raise a warning flag, to all concerned, that we might all get nowhere.
My second was to ask you to provide very important detail on how it was all wired up. In what way was that not constructive?
My third was to add my voice to those telling you that your diagram had to be wrong. As you now admit, it
was wrong all along, and there was no point in any of us carrying on until you had accepted that, and provided the right information.
My 4th was to Andrew to point out that you were far more likely to have got the diagram wrong than the description of how you used to be able to turn your lights on and off, so he should stop wondering how it might be right. In terms of overall efficiency and moving towards a solution, it was constructive.
My 5th was the one with the diagram which showed exactly where current would flow if it were wired as you say, and an invitation for you to look at it and work out for yourself that it couldn't be correct. In what way was that not constructive?
You suggested that I was ignorant in one of your earlier posts. Ignorance would have been getting an electrician in without even investigating the problem myself.
Ignorance.
n. lack of knowledge (
of thing)
Ignorant
a. lacking knowledge, uninformed (
of or
in subject,
of fact)
j0hnryder said:
I'm not very experienced with electrics
j0hnryder said:
if there is one thing I'm not good at its electrics
Lastly, I can almost guarantee you have NO friends.
Then you'd be almost completely wrong, but what does that have to do with this topic?