The only thing I can say is that all the blacks were twisted together in a dead end and the reds were the only wires connected to the back of the dimmer. One of the reds was stripped further down the wire in order for that red to go into 2 holes.
The switch is in my extension with two wall lights. I assume one of the wires is the live feed and the other two are the cables which take the power to each of the two lights.
Hope you can help, its getting dark soon.
Ben
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What I do not understand is why the 3 black cables were all wired together in a dead end.
My GCSE science suggests that the red black wires in each cable are effecively positive and negative and therefore need to be connected to either end of a switch.
Please help somebody.
Ben
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please note 10a which is
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I have almost solved the problem.
I put the 3 blacks back together in a bit of choc box, next I wired the red cable i believe to be the feed into the common of the first switch and one of the other reds into L1. Then I took a separate piece of red wire and ran this from the common of switch 1 to the common of switch 2 and the final red wire to the L1 of switch 2.
The lights work ok, but switch 2 is the wrong way around. I swapped the connections in switch 2 and it is still the wrong way around. Can anyone solve this much smaller problem?
At least I will be able to see tonight,
Ben
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please note 10a which is here this is your 2nd warning in the same topic