How to wire led strip lights to a switch

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Help needed Again :cry:

I have a LED Strip light which will be on a 13amp plug top plug in to wall socket. But the Socket to difficult to acess on a day to day

So I was thinking to put a 1way switch to turn the led's on and off from it

HOW DO I WIRE IT UP :confused:
 
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Keep the neutrall continuous, put the switch in the live wire - so you have live from plug to switch, then from the other side of the switch to the light.

With care it's often possible to strip the cable and expose the conductors, then cut the live without breaking the neutral.

Don't forget strain relief if the cable and switch aren't fixed.
 
i doubt the supplied wire will be happy in a switch tends to be very thin
suggest you have an extension with a switched socket
 
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Thanks for the reply guys

I have a a in-line switch but how do i wire it up

What cables gose were
 
See my post above :rolleyes:

Neutral (blue) needs to go through the housing without a break. If you can strip the cable without damaging the insulation on the cores then leave the blue wire uncut.
The switch will have two switch terminals, you cut the line (brown) wire and put the two ends into the two terminals.

If you can't leave the neutral uncut, that switch says it has a neutral terminal, so you put both blue wire ends into the neutral terminal to link them - otherwise this is not used.
 
I have a a in-line switch but how do i wire it up

What cables gose were
Nav - trying to do electrical work with lethal voltages on the basis of following instructions to put-this-wire-in-that-hole without you actually understanding why is a bad idea.

PLEASE learn about how electrical circuits work, what switches do, etc.

 

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