Interesting way of saving on one choc block

[SeanT]

Someone had done this in my outside loo, where there is an incoming live feed to the switch and the light run from there, but rather than a choc block, they did this:

Common - switched live cable to light fitting (reason why becomes apparent)
L1 - Permanent live supply
L2 - both 2.5mm neutrals filed down to fit in the terminal on the 2 way switch

Good idea until someone who doesn't know what they are doing rewires it (thankfully I did!) - or someone tries changing the bulb when some other connected equipment is dumping a load of juice to neutral through a fault or such like.

Oh, the other thing, thankfully I was fitting it indoors, but don't buy one of the five quid "IP44" bulkhead lights from B&Q and expect it to be ok outside, it's a shonky heap of junk....

 

[Adam_151]

or someone tries changing the bulb when some other connected equipment is dumping a load of juice to neutral through a fault or such like.

I'm having trouble picturing this as a valid concern

But yes, its sloppy, slashdash and I don't like it, and could perhaps lead to a possible risk of striking an arc across the switch!

 

[333rocky333]

someone appeared to have that in a post last week, except the screw was missing from the switch terminal, where the neutrals were in.
when he pulled the switch off , he was faced with 3 stripped neutrals , no connecter block and could not work out where they went.
I presume like yours they were in the spare 2 way terminal, as the lights were ok before.

 

[SeanT]

The spare terminal is only spare if the permanent and switched live are swapped though, otherwise if someone rewires it and puts the lives back the opposite way it'll create a short - not sure where I was going with the other thing, as the light will have a neutral to it anyway, seem to have confused myself with that.

 

[333rocky333]

were in the spare 2 way terminal.

As in not used for a one way circuit