Home lighting wiring confusion ???

[BillyWilson]

Well thanks for all the feedback my friend - I'll pop round his later with my new found knowledge and see what I can do

 

[Taylortwocities]

Everything is connected to a 3 switch wall socket?

Wall socket?? What do you mean by a wall socket???

A wall socket has rectanglar holes and you plug things into it (eg a Hoover).

Or did you mean something else, a 3 gang light switch maybe?
If so, please clarify - cant begin to help unless you type in the correct words.

 

[BillyWilson]

Kind of difficult to know the exact correct wordings unless you take a keen interest or deal in sparks - Evidently neither of which I do.

So its a 3 gang light switch?

 

[333rocky333]

*EDIT* so that photo turned out really small! Can anyone tell me how I go about getting a full size image on here?

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• BillyWilson
• 30 Apr 2009
• 1

Click on the image.

 

[BillyWilson]

All sorted now - It was a case of connecting the 2 remaining black wires together in a separate connection block then connecting 1 red into the loop and 1 into the neutral - and walaa - job done!

Cheers to everyone that responded and to rocky above for resizing my photo - this really is a top forum

It all seems so easy when you know how

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Kind of difficult to know the exact correct wordings unless you take a keen interest or deal in sparks - Evidently neither of which I do.

I wouldn't have thought you did need either of those to know the difference between a socket and a switch, but there you go...

All sorted now - It was a case of connecting the 2 remaining black wires together in a separate connection block then connecting 1 red into the loop and 1 into the neutral - and walaa - job done!

A red being used for neutral???

 

[ColJack]

I was just thinking that...

stop right now and figure out which wire is the switch wire and swap the other one round so that there is a red and black in the terminal block ( switched black and red to light ) and a black in the neutral..



live to switch ---Switch --- Switched live ---|--- Switched live to other light--- Light --- Neutral back to rose