Bathroom light switch broken.

[Taylortwocities]

Dont worry, it won't explode.

MAke sure you turn the power off before you start.

One point. You have two wires to connect, red and black?? ) and the old switch has two terminals.
Your new switch will have three terminals. Don't worry.
Put one wire (the red one into the terminal marked C). The other wire can go into either of the other terminals (L1 or L2)
If there is an earth wire, there should be an earth terminal on the back box. That's it

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Anyway the top of this switch says 250v which matches my old one, but it says 16AX, whereas my old one says 5AX.
So going by what I've been told on here, that just means it CAN handle 16A max. It doesn't mean the light HAS to be 16A.

It's just like if you wanted a shelf to hold 5kg of books. Nothing bad would happen if the shelf was capable of holding 16kg.