Replacement intermediate switch

[falcs]

Hi All
I am trying to replace an MK Grid intermediate switch (white plastic) with a Varilight intermediate switch (flat stainless, hence change).
The problem I have is that the wire connected to the MK intermediate terminal is marked as 1/int (with the remaining terminals marked as 1, 2 & 2). The intermediate terminal on the varilight is marked as L2/int (with the remaining marked L2, L1 & L1). A simple swap of on the wire from intermediate terminal to new intermediate terminal results in the switch not working. Any ideas as I seem to be looking at a reversal of 1's and 2's?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Some have the 1s and 2s at the ends and some have them at the sides.
Has this caused you to wire it wrongly?

You should connect one cable to each end (top and bottom) of the switch?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Why not just use your multimeter to work out which terminals are which?

Would have taken less time than just registering here...

 

[deadshort]

But not as welcoming as here meet BAS he's mad but only on a full moon

Welcome,

DS

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

But not as welcoming as here meet BAS he's mad but only on a full moon

Luna or Tush

 

[JohnW2]

But not as welcoming as here meet BAS he's mad but only on a full moon

We need to wait about 22 hours, then, to see him in his full glory

Kind Regards, John

 

[falcs]

Appreciate the banter!
Any ideas tho, or is my explanation a bit confusing?

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Unfortunately for some reason intermediate switch manufacturers don't all stay to the same format.
How was the MK wirerd?

Ignore the int mark, all it means is the switch plate is an intermediate one.


http://www.free-instruction-manuals.com/pdf/pa_359221.pdf

 

[deadshort]

But not as welcoming as here meet BAS he's mad but only on a full moon

We need to wait about 22 hours, then, to see him in his full glory

Kind Regards, John

DS

 

[deadshort]

Unfortunately for some reason intermediate switch manufacturers don't all stay to the same format.
How was the MK wirerd?

Ignore the int mark, all it means is the switch plate is an intermediate one.


http://www.free-instruction-manuals.com/pdf/pa_359221.pdf[/QUOTE] And……. PrenticeBoy is a bit "wirerd" to-night as well !

DS

 

[deadshort]

After all that! BAS is the best advice

Multimeter is required ! or 4 stabs in the dark.

Regards,

DS

 

[JohnW2]

After all that! BAS is the best advice Multimeter is required ! or 4 stabs in the dark.

BAS was certainly right that a multimeter (if the OP has one) would have been the quickest solution in the first place. However, the OP has already had one 'stab', and (much as I don't like 'trial and error' any more than BAS does) I think that ought to define what will work ...

There are presumably two cables, and there surely is no way that a switch would have been designed such as the two conductors from one cable had to go to diagonally opposite terminals. Hence, if the arrangement the OP has tried (and doesn't work) has the the two conductors from one cable going to one 'side' of the switch (and the two conductors from the other cable going to the other side), then he presumably needs to change it so that one cable goes to the terminals at the bottom, and the other to the terminals at the bottom - or vice versa?

Kind Regards, John

 

[EFLImpudence]

There's always a duff switch - new does not rule out this...

..but then - multimeter to test.

 

[JohnW2]

There's always a duff switch - new does not rule out this... ..but then - multimeter to test.

All true.

Kind Regards, John