JohnW2 - I await with interest (but not much hope) your explanation of how anybody, no matter how inexpert on electrical matters, could reasonably regard the colour and make of the switches as being relevant to, or responsible for, the behaviour claimed by the OP.
You will be waiting for a long time, but ...
If he is, he's not very good at it, for the very reason that you highlight above. No-one deliberately attempting to appear credible (which is surely what a Troll wants to do, rather than to 'announce themselves' as a Troll) would have written that.
AsI've said more than once, although it's been a very odd thread/story, FWIW I don't believe it, either - but, as you imply, what on earth BAS is doing feeding what he clearly believes to be a troll totally escapes me.
Well, as far as my input is concerned, he might be a little disappointed then. I have repeatedly told him that if his is adamant that the switch has not been inverted and the switch connections not changed, but also adamant that the switch functionality has reversed, that he then must get an electrician to investigate the matter.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten that. Much as some complain about people (like me!) quoting too much, a little bit of a quote is often helpful in indicating what comment/question is being responded to! Without any context, the OP's comment about the make/colour did, I confess, seem a little bizarre, to me as well as to BAS!
"Obstinate pillock" would seem to be apposite. You took no notice when people here said it must always have been like it, but you eventually listened to an electrician you got in.
A contrast of styles?
. Vive la difference, I suppose!
Perhaps an alta ego took over control of his fingers.
Indeed. But what's the point if they are going to take not a blind bit of notice of the replies? The related idea is that they do take note of the answers, so that we don't end up, after 9 pages of people saying "can't have happened", "you must be mistaken", "somebody must have changed something" etc and them saying "no no no no no", and then "oh, I got someone in who said the same, so that must be right".
True.
I think we've probably all been there. The OP clearly was 'certain' that he was not mistaken, even though, in truth, he clearly was mistaken. Have you never been in that position? (I have, not infrequently!)
That's surely different. If, after all of us had said "you must been mistaken", a further person (the electrician) had been told the same story, also responded "you must be mistaken" and was immediately believed by the OP, then I would obviously agree with you. However, the OP only believed him because he said the same thing after he had investigated the circuit and found nothing that could explain changed functionality.
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