Hi Guys,
Hope someone can help.
I set about changing a 2 gang light switch in my front room, so I shut off the trip switch, the kitchen shares this trip switch.
Finished the job and flicked trip switch and as I did it, it sparked and flipped down.
I found that a screw for the switch had grazed the live wire, resolved that and front room lights all good.
I later found the kitchen lights to not work. I have a 2 gang switch which feeds a daisy chained set of downlights and under cabinet lighting, these have a transformer. The down lighters do not, the wire from the light switch looks to go into a junction box as part of the downlight and another wire comes back out and on to the next light. I tried changing the bulb in the first of the chain. I have also changed the switch but then later got hold of a tester.
I get nothing at all, I have a voltage tester and it jus bleeps, does not register any voltage at the switch, I have followed the wire back from switch, up in loft (in a top floor apartment) and to the trip box, there are no fuses or anything in between but I cannot work out why the front room is ok and the kitchen is not, even though they are fed from same supply share the one and only live feed). Earths are attached fine too.
Any advice would be great
Thanks
Hope someone can help.
I set about changing a 2 gang light switch in my front room, so I shut off the trip switch, the kitchen shares this trip switch.
Finished the job and flicked trip switch and as I did it, it sparked and flipped down.
I found that a screw for the switch had grazed the live wire, resolved that and front room lights all good.
I later found the kitchen lights to not work. I have a 2 gang switch which feeds a daisy chained set of downlights and under cabinet lighting, these have a transformer. The down lighters do not, the wire from the light switch looks to go into a junction box as part of the downlight and another wire comes back out and on to the next light. I tried changing the bulb in the first of the chain. I have also changed the switch but then later got hold of a tester.
I get nothing at all, I have a voltage tester and it jus bleeps, does not register any voltage at the switch, I have followed the wire back from switch, up in loft (in a top floor apartment) and to the trip box, there are no fuses or anything in between but I cannot work out why the front room is ok and the kitchen is not, even though they are fed from same supply share the one and only live feed). Earths are attached fine too.
Any advice would be great
Thanks