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Thanks for your reply,I haven;t as yet removed the existing switch its wired in the sequence of red,red,blue at the top. black & yellow at the bottom. And yes one of the switches works two ways I also have a single switch near my garden door. Both the 2way & single switch have a single green/yellow wire which is secured the metal box that is fitted into the wall.
The dimmer has a metal back & a plastic face slots onto it, it's a screwless flat plate. the terminal on the right does have 3 lines if this means anything and yes there are two Sw terminals as well as 2 Ls & 2 squiggly lines with arrows through them.
I did get a council electrician in & he wired the dimmer switch in the sequence
L = red Arrow symbol= black in the next box terminal, L=red, Sw=blue Arrow=yellow. It may have been my imagination but he didn't seem to know what he was doing. And I have looked at the instructions & it shows one of the red wires in the common terminal a blue or black in L1 & in the other terminals a red & the neutrals in the Sw & arrow symbol so if this is the case where would the yellow go and why does it say in the instructions not to connect the dimmer terminal marked Sw to neutral if it shows it in the diagram.
As a women I can do most things when it comes to a mans world but the electrics is one that I don't fully understand but I did wire up all the other switches in my home & they're ok.
I notice that on the diagrams they talk about the red wire =live the black and blue=neutrals the green/yellow=earth but what about just the yellow wire diagrams hardly mention the yellow.
Thanks for your reply,I haven;t as yet removed the existing switch its wired in the sequence of red,red,blue at the top. black & yellow at the bottom. And yes one of the switches works two ways I also have a single switch near my garden door. Both the 2way & single switch have a single green/yellow wire which is secured the metal box that is fitted into the wall.
The dimmer has a metal back & a plastic face slots onto it, it's a screwless flat plate. the terminal on the right does have 3 lines if this means anything and yes there are two Sw terminals as well as 2 Ls & 2 squiggly lines with arrows through them.
I did get a council electrician in & he wired the dimmer switch in the sequence
L = red Arrow symbol= black in the next box terminal, L=red, Sw=blue Arrow=yellow. It may have been my imagination but he didn't seem to know what he was doing. And I have looked at the instructions & it shows one of the red wires in the common terminal a blue or black in L1 & in the other terminals a red & the neutrals in the Sw & arrow symbol so if this is the case where would the yellow go and why does it say in the instructions not to connect the dimmer terminal marked Sw to neutral if it shows it in the diagram.
As a women I can do most things when it comes to a mans world but the electrics is one that I don't fully understand but I did wire up all the other switches in my home & they're ok.
I notice that on the diagrams they talk about the red wire =live the black and blue=neutrals the green/yellow=earth but what about just the yellow wire diagrams hardly mention the yellow.
