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I cut my losses. Gave in to my lack of knowledge. I hunted around the loft for another junction box and tapped into that. Now all is well. Thanks everyone for your advise

I got my hands on a multimeter this morning for this situation. silly question, how do I use it to check if I have tapped into the switched live cable? For information, the cable has only black, red and earth wire.

Not that I am aware of. I followed the same layout as a fan I have running off the downstairs lighting circuit. That works ok so I thought this would? What am I looking for in the cabling to check for paralling?

I have a tv signal splitter and booster wired into my lighting circuit in the loft (that is the only electrical circuit in the loft). The setup is a junction box running of the light main then through a switched fuse then the booster and splitter wired into another junction box. My problem is...