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Well this morning we still have hot water, and a sporadically on neon light

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I've taken your advice and am having a large wine. I will wait and see if there is hot water in the morning

I was replacing it because the old switch had shorted and so the immersion wasn't coming on. The builders had fitted a 13amp switch and the live "in" wire was black and had melted the plastic fitting I have cut this wire back to remove all the blackened parts. The engineer from the copper...

No it doesn't come on at all.

Thank you that had saved me some unnecessary work!

I'm guessing from your post John that swapping the live and neutral wires won't necessarily effect the neon light?

I've definitely wired it into the same points on the old switch. Do u think its worth swapping the live and neutral wires round to check? I haven't tried the leccy meter suggestion yet but not sure this will work as we still have some hot in the cylinder

It seems to be. There was hot water for washing up but that was in the tank already (we have a copper cylinder). We haven't had a shower or anything that requires lots of hot water yet

They both appear to be in place

Hi all, I have just replaced the on / off switch for my immersion heater. It is a 20amp switch with points for live and neutral in wires, live and neutral out wires and 2 earth wires I am sure I have wired it correctly (the right pair of wires to the 'in' and 'out') But the neon light isn't...