Looking at the back of the switch the left hand side is the top landing switch
Wiring 2 way switch help
- Thread starter Jason-m
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Not something that instills me with confidence that we have actually ID perm live!
Indeed - as I wrote a good few messages back:
I'd also still like to know whether (with all the wires put back into the new switch), the upstairs 2-way switch is functioning correctly as regards the hall light.If the answer is 'yes', I suspect you will have run out of options! - in which case maybe the landing lamp would need checking
Kind Regards, John
got nothing upstairs at all, had the odd flicker when trying wires in different ways
Are you talking about the landing light? What I'd rather like to know is, when you've got the hall light working with the new switch (with all 3 wires connected to it), whether the upstairs switch also satisfactory controls the hall light.
Kind Regards, John
is the hall light two way not all are?
If you take the red out of L1 of new switch right gang, does hall still work?
If you take the red out of L1 of new switch right gang, does hall still work?
hall and landing light are 2 way...gonna get a spark out i think to sort it...thanks for all the help
That's the sensible course. Something seems to be 'wrong' - since, as BAS said early on, there do not appear to be enough conductors at that downstairs switch for both switches to be 2-way.
Kind Regards, John
The switch up stairs controls the landing light and what else?
Were there two switches controlling the down stairs light?
Were there two switches controlling the down stairs light?
the other is for a light in the loft
Were there two switches controlling the down stairs light?
I know.
and you don't get involved in light switch threads John 
or are you making an exception to annoy ban?
Andy - not everybody is so childish, sad, empty and pathetic that they would post here in order to annoy people.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone is like you.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone is like you.
No - I very rarely get involved, in the sense of saying things like "try putting conductor X into terminal Y" - and I certainly haven't in this thread. However, since some people were trying to do that, what I have been trying to do (slowly, and not all that successfully) is to extract from the OP at least some of the information which people should have if they are going to try to give such suggestions/instructions.I know.
If I wanted to annoy BAS, I'm sure that I could find far better ways than that
Kind Regards, John
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