Hi
I'm in the process of decorating a room and as part of that am swapping out the old white plastic switches and sockets for chrome ones. Most are straightforward, like for like with obvious neutral, earth and live wires but this light switch has got me puzzled. Why are all the wires red, surely it's not all live? We have a 2 gang light switch next door in the lounge which has the same setup but just even worse.
As you can see from the photo, the solitary red wire goes into L2 and the 4 bunched red wires are all squeezed into the connector at the top. I'm trying to fit a modern 1 gang switch with 4 connectors: Com, 1 Way, Loop and 2 Way. Can anyone suggest which ones I connect to in the new switch? I assume it will be the same idea, the 4 bunched reds into one and the single red into another but which ones?
Also, just out of interest, why might the switch be wired this way (The house was built in the 1970's)
Thanks in advance
I'm in the process of decorating a room and as part of that am swapping out the old white plastic switches and sockets for chrome ones. Most are straightforward, like for like with obvious neutral, earth and live wires but this light switch has got me puzzled. Why are all the wires red, surely it's not all live? We have a 2 gang light switch next door in the lounge which has the same setup but just even worse.
As you can see from the photo, the solitary red wire goes into L2 and the 4 bunched red wires are all squeezed into the connector at the top. I'm trying to fit a modern 1 gang switch with 4 connectors: Com, 1 Way, Loop and 2 Way. Can anyone suggest which ones I connect to in the new switch? I assume it will be the same idea, the 4 bunched reds into one and the single red into another but which ones?
Also, just out of interest, why might the switch be wired this way (The house was built in the 1970's)
Thanks in advance