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I should add at the moment I've got quite dim/ambient lights in the garden, it would be good to beef them up a little but at the same time I don't want to p*** off the neighbours too much! The Mrs is a postie and she goes into the garden everyday at 5.30am to get her bike, which would trigger a...

Hi I have 2 lights in the garden (on the walls of the back of the house) that I'd like to a dd a PIR to so they become security lights. I'm assuming I can do this, so long as I leave the light switch in the house turned to on, is this correct? Cheers Kelv

And seeing as I made a pretty picture here it is

Yes that's done it, I just can't get the f ing cover plate on to the Crabtree flush fitting switch (they didn't have the normal screw in cover switches). Going to have to take out the backbox and pad it out until I can manage to clip f er on. My hats off to you leccys out there, this has been...

SON OF A B!TCH !!! :cry: I just bought a new 2 gang 2 way rocker switch to replace the upstairs dimmer switch seeing as the test unit I used from the Kitchen worked, BUT THE NEW ONE DON"T WORK! ARRRGGGHHHHHHH! Here's the two switches On the left we have the Kitchen Switch that...

Bingo! Yeap that works, the new dimmer I bought works when there's a rocker switch upstairs but it didn't when there was a dimmer upstairs. However another dimmer switch did work when there was another dimmer upstairs. Doesn't make any sense to me, but then why should it... Thanks everyone...

Vibro do you have an Uncle called Bob? Bob's ya uncle, you were spot on, I had put the wiring linear instead of triangular. I just rewired it and it all works (with the original switches that I had moved around from other rooms). I'm now going to try it with the new dimmer I bought to...

Do I need to wire it differently then?

Whilst waiting for a reply I thought I'd try it using the same wiring set up as in the original upstairs dimmer: 2 way hallway light Red - C yellow - L2 Blue - L1 1 way landing light Red - C Black - L1 IT DIDN"T WORK! Am I right in saying the Kitchen switch IS a 1 way only and...

This is the switch from a 1 way light in the kitchen, I was going to try it upstairs replacing the dimmer so I only had one dimmer (downstairs) on my two way set up, before i went out and bought a new one but IS THIS A 1 WAY ONLY SWITCH? And if it is I guess that means I can't test it...

Eh??? You've lost me, I don't have any switches, they're all dimmers...

So where do I go from here? Should I put normal switches upstairs and retain a single dimmer downstairs, should that solve it? The new dimmer I bought is chrome and doesn't fit in with the rest of the sockets upstairs (nor does it fit into the backbox) & needless to say the one I took...

OK so to check the one that I thought was broken I wired it in upstairs in the bedroom and it didn't work which confirms it's broken. Wired the new dimmer into the bedroom and it works fine with no flickering (single switch in room) Just for the hell of it I wired the dimmer from the...

I did think of that, I'll do it now, back in 5

Just checked all wired in ok. Ah!!!! Just had a 'fiddle' (with the lights!) maybe I had the dimmer all the way down upstairs when i turned the power on... MAYBE! Anyway the light comes on now but it's really flickering when you dim it. I usually leave the dimmer turned up full upstairs...

I'd heard you can only have 1 dimmer but it's been working for the 5 years we've been here, and assumingly before then too.

New dimmer is the same as the old one 60-400W and there's a 60W bulb in it (the old style)