Light Switch

U2_Rules_My_World · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:53 pm Post Subject: Light Switch

Really need someones help. I thought I\\\'d have a really easy job of replacing a broken light switch.

Anyway, not quite so. The old switch doesn\\\'t refer to Common/L1/L2...but Common/1/2/3

It\\\'s a double light switch. There are two cores in the wall, both with 4 wires. Each has a RED, BLUE (with Red marker), YELLOW (with Red marker) and a YELLOW/GREEN. Both YELLOW/GREENs are attached to the back plate. In the old switch I had an additional piece of RED wire coming out of one of the COMMON holes and straight into another.

The new switch has 6 connectors - 2x COMMON,L1,L2.

What goes where here? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

RF Lighting · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:51 pm Post Subject:

Can you post us a picture of the wires / old switch? Not quite sure how to do it from your description.

U2_Rules_My_World · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:00 pm Post Subject:

Cheers...heres a picture of what it did look like. I've put the RED to Common, BLUE to L2 and YELLOW to L1...didn't blow the house up but all the swtich does it switch one light on whilst switching the other off

http://download.yousendit.com/77D0775615D764DD

RF Lighting · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:07 pm Post Subject:

Hi hope this diagram helps (sorry the photo isnt very clear)

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i62/RFLighting/25042006115.jpg

Rob