Intermediate Switch(es) Required?

[RF Lighting]

Yes. I'm sad aren't I


Right hand one is Crabtree

 

[dpm_dpmartin]

Am I missing something? What's wrong with the click mini grid as suggested earlier? You intermediate is already a click mini grid switch.

It's just that the rest of the house is in the style of the right-hand side.

It seems, to me, in the absence of a 3-gang switch with at least 1 intermediate and 2 x 2-way, I have the following two options...

1 - keep the right-hand side switch as it is and buy a SSSINTB 1-gang intermediate switch to replace the Click Mini Grid Switch on the left.

2 - remove both switches and purchase a single-width 3-gang Click Mini Grid Switch where 2 switches are 2-way and 1 is intermediate.

1 is more messy, but likely to be cheaper - SSSINTB less than £15 - and will keep the style of switches throughout the house consistent.

2 should be neater, but could be more expensive (need to figure out exactly what I'd need to buy first) and would mean a single-width switch in the house is different to the rest (which is what I have now) but I'd have a nice 3-gang switch controlling everything rather than the 2 that I have now.

I'm erring towards 2.

 

[dpm_dpmartin]

I thought SSSINTB was Eurolite... are Eurolite and Crabtree the same thing?

 

[RF Lighting]

Euro lite use Crabtree innards for their switches. You need to get the euro lite ones to match.

 

[dpm_dpmartin]

OK, and if I went with option 2 - that's having a single Scolmore Click Deco 3-gang switch, would this be my starting point?

VPSS013BK

http://www.electrical2go.co.uk/wiri...2-way-10ax-switch-with-black-insert-vpss.html

I then buy - something, I don't know what yet - an intermediate modular component to go in the back and replace one of the three 2-way components?

 

[dpm_dpmartin]

MD028 I reckon. Maybe MD028BK.

Just as securespark suggested a while back! Must've skimmed that at the time, sorry.

 

[RF Lighting]

You can swap one of the modules from the new three gang with the intermediate module you already have in your existing switch.

 

[dpm_dpmartin]

Got my shopping list, reckon it's...

1 x VPSS403BK
2 x MD002BK
1 x MD028BK

...unless I've got this wrong, then you've all been a great help. Will sacrifice overall house consistency for what I hope is a nice neat single-width 3-gang installation.

 

[dpm_dpmartin]

You can swap one of the modules from the new three gang with the intermediate module you already have in your existing switch.

Holy cow! Of course!

 

[333rocky333]

Whats gonna happen to the other, switch position then

 

[333rocky333]

dont you just need 1 of these and swop out 1 module

http://www.electrical2go.co.uk/wiri...2-way-10ax-switch-with-black-insert-vpss.html

 

[dpm_dpmartin]

Yes, I did go and buy VPSS013BK in the end... I got it from somewhere else that offered delivery for under £4. Fingers-crossed going for the cheapest doesn't mean a cock-up along the way.

 

[securespark]

As long as your existing switch is Click, then you should be OK to swap out a 2 way for the intermediate module in your existing switch.

 

[333rocky333]

Lets hope the wiring remains in a safe zone

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Good point.

Maybe a double faceplate will still be required.