Hi I have recently moved in to a house and wanted to replace the light fittings in my living room. In doing this I quickly found out that the loop in loop out method (which I'm familiar with) had not been used.
Instead the switch had been feed (I'm less familiar with this method). However what I found concerned me a bit, in that the neutrals that had been bunched in a choc bloc also had a conductor terminated to the earth terminal of the switch plate.
Is this normal? I'm thinking remove the conductor from the choc bloc to the back of the switch plate (red wire in attached pic) thereby leaving the neutrals bunched in the choc bloc, and then running a priece of earth cable from the back of the switch plate earth terminal to the patress earth terminal
Please advise if this sounds correct, or if there is any reason this original set up may have been done.
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Instead the switch had been feed (I'm less familiar with this method). However what I found concerned me a bit, in that the neutrals that had been bunched in a choc bloc also had a conductor terminated to the earth terminal of the switch plate.
Is this normal? I'm thinking remove the conductor from the choc bloc to the back of the switch plate (red wire in attached pic) thereby leaving the neutrals bunched in the choc bloc, and then running a priece of earth cable from the back of the switch plate earth terminal to the patress earth terminal
Please advise if this sounds correct, or if there is any reason this original set up may have been done.
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Many thanks. [/img]