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Outside light works without switch/fuse

Currently I have a gas hob and want to change to electric. The electric oven is hard wired (6mm & 32A mcb) and a dedicated cooker switch. Can I run 6mm cable from existing switch to the hob or should I replace with double cooker switch or do I need a dedicated cable and bcc separate from the...

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Hi, advice please Current: Gas hob plugged into standard socket under worktop Electric oven hard wired (6mm cable) with cooker switch above worktop Proposed: Electric hob into same cooker switch or change to double cooker switch and 6mm cable from switch to hob I.e. on the same 32A mcb...

Murdochat: yes the neutrals are connected. Just a bad angle for the photo. Thanks Chivers67: yes it’s a 6A much. I agree it doesn’t make sense that the fuse is higher rated than the mcb. The insulation on the neon does enter the back box they have just been pushed up when moving the switch. Thanks

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Hi my son’s kitchen has a fused switch with a 13A switch in his kitchen on the lighting circuit breaker. Everything appears to work without this switch turned on including the outside light and the extractor which works off the socket ring main. Any ideas what this set up could be used for? I’d...

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Thanks but the outside light works regardless

Hi my son’s kitchen has the left hand switch in the attached photo wired on the lighting circuit and fitted with a 13A fuse. All lighting works without the switch being on. We have no idea why this exists. The extractor runs off a socket on the ring main. Why would there be such an arrangement...

Can’t swear to it as someone else was at the consumer unit. None of the lights worked so I assumed it was due to incorrect wiring but the incorrect wiring could have tripped it.

Basically yes! There were only 2 possible combinations

Following Sunray’s original suggestion (as per the first picture) of one of the disconnected black wires to neutral and the other disconnected black wire to the live on the light was unsuccessful with the first combination but successful with the second. All lights working. Nothing tripping...

A friend’s house