Cooker switch LED

[nickbo]

Guys,

This may be a daft question but after changing my switch for the cooker the LED light remains lit when the socket is in the OFF position, now I may be wrong but shouldn't this switch off when the power is switched off from the socket??????????

The load and supply wires are to the correct points in the socket.

Any ideas? The cooker and hob work when the switch is on by the way

Thanks
Nick

 

[Steve]

What have you connected to each terminal? DIYers often get confused here.

 

[Spark123]

Which LED light? Do you mean the little red neon indicator in the cooker control unit for the cooker? Are you absolutely sure you have the supply and load wires all the correct way around?

 

[nickbo]

What have you connected to each terminal? DIYers often get confused here.

The earth cable

I do have some common sense LOL

I'd checked and re-checked the cable config was as it was in the old socket that was taken off, all connections are exactly the same bar the old socket had a visible wire to the LED

The switch is a 45A D.P. Switch

 

[nickbo]

I'll re-check again to make sure

 

[Steve]

I'll re-check again to make sure

also recheck MY post above

 

[cheesepuff]

u said led, shoudnt it be neon???

 

[tim west]

Not Necessarily

 

[Space cat]

There aren't too many possibilities here:

1) The switch is wrongly marked or wrongly wired inside.

2) The cables aren't what you think they are. This will not apply if the cooker cable comes straight out of the switch because you'll know exactly which wires are which.

3) Current is somehow leaking across the switch - or through our old friend the hidden capacitor - to the neon (or LED). If this is the case it will go out if you turn on a ring while the wall switch is off.

What happens if you remove the cooker wires completely from the load side? Does it light up? Now move the supply wires across to the load side terminals. Does it still light up?

PS: You are using the words switch and socket to describe the same thing - or are you? Is this a two pole switch with four terminals (plus earths) or is there a 13 amp socket on there too?