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LET THERE BE LIGHT!!! ITS WORKING!! I busted out the label maker and made some educated guesses before moving everything to the choc block. Stuck the last wire in the last Com. Thanks so much everyone, for your help and your patience!

MCB was just in a bad mood, it’s come on now… just needed a delicate touch… Can’t find multimeter, must still be in old house… but I do have Fluke pen. It would appear I only have one live wire. So now, live into com, pigtail the rest of the coms, put each of the other wires in a1 b1 etc, but...

MCB is tripping I just disconnected the switch altogether, put everything in a choc block to start testing… MCB still won’t come on. Does that mean the MCB might the problem? Possibly fried it while doing all this?

To be clear: I need to connect the one that gives 230 to the first Com, then connect the rest of the coms with pigtails, and connect each wire to A1, B1, etc…? If 4 give me 230, those are the lives, but there are 6 grey wires, where do the other two go?

The one on the left is a continuous wire with a little insulation striped off. Removing the one on the right did not let the trip come back on…

I believe that the 4 independent lights worked before the dimmer was added. Since all my messing I now can’t switch the trip back on. There are 6 wires and 3 pigtails. No colour coding or labelling of any kind. All photos are the current state of affairs.

Yes, 4 independent lights. Good question about the neutrals…

Sorry for the lack of context. There was a 4 gang dimmer connected, but a few lights didn’t work at all, and none of the lights were actually dimmable anyway!! Long story short, the dimmer was a recent job attempted by previous owner. The original switch was still in a drawer, so I attempted so...

Hello, I just moved into a new ( new to me) house. I won’t bore you with the whole back story, but this is what I’m looking at, something is obviously wrong, which I have now made worse, but I don’t want to phone a qualified electrician for this one little job if I can avoid it. Can someone tell...

No its for the boiler, just does heating. All the hot water comes from solar on a separate system

The pictures I took are pretty rubbish actually, sorry! The wires in it are labelled 1L in 2 N in 3 N out 4 L out

This is what I'm replacing...