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    Mains light switch to dimmer

    Hooray sorted it out! Turns out that there was a fuse further down the line, behind some furniture, so replaced that and got the original switch working. Connected the dimmer switch and nothing, so the dimmer switch was faulty as well. Bought a new one and away we go. As I said yesterday you...
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    Mains light switch to dimmer

    You lot have been great but still no joy at my end. I am going to have to give up now as guests are due here in about 10 minutes and I haven't even changed yet! Will get back onto it tomorrow or just wait til Tuesday and ask the electrician that did the original wiring. Really frustrating this...
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    Mains light switch to dimmer

    Sorry I have to turn the PC off to try the very kind suggestions all of the you are giving me. Still no joy though. I will give up on the dimmer for the moment and go and use a normal 1 switch so could someone please confirm for me how to wire a normal 1 switch switch based upon the wires I...
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    Mains light switch to dimmer

    Thank you - now tried the above but no joy still. To confirm: I have the brown from below is connected to COM or wiggle line. I have joined the 2 blues togwther with a terminal block (1 from below is blue the one that goes to the light pendant is actually a black with a blue sleeve.) I have...
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    Mains light switch to dimmer

    Thanks for the reply. The light switch is a 2 way individual switch as I could have chosen to have a ceiling mounted fan and light and then turned them on and off individually - I hope that makes sense. Going up to the light itself is 1 x blue, 1 x grey (with brown sleeve) and 1 x brown. There...
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    Mains light switch to dimmer

    Hi I hope someone can help me out please. I have had a conservatory built and the electrician has fitted a double light switch that I wish to replace with a single dimmer switch. Now the wiring appears to be connected to the mains not the lighting circuit and when I took off the original double...
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