My 1st of many Numpty questions

[Dal]

ok here's the story.

I am trying to wire in two lights one at each end of the shed I am using a switch with two regular on off switches. One switch to control each light. So nothing fancy required

I have wired in one light and it works fine but when I wire in the second nothing happens.

But rather than tell you what I have done so far I have removed everything so I can start again using the methods you guys supply.

Many thanks

 

[notb665]

What wire(s) have you got coming in to supply the power?

 

[Steve]

So you dont want the ritual ridiculing then? Shame we enjoy it Only joking.

Anyway, all the answers are in the wiki.

 

[breezer]

answer is even simpler.

if the first one works (you said it does) do the exact same thbing again with the 2nd light

 

[notb665]

I bet he hasn't got power to his second switch.

 

[notb665]

So you want two switches (in the form of a double) to control a light each? Not one switch to control both?

 

[Dal]

What wire(s) have you got coming in to supply the power?

I've got a 15mm cable coming in from the house. It has Brown Live, Blue Neutral and earth cores only

 

[Dal]

So you dont want the ritual ridiculing then? Shame we enjoy it Only joking.

Anyway, all the answers are in the wiki.

Ok you can ridicual if you want but just a bit

I looked through the REF section and could no find the answer.

 

[Dal]

I bet he hasn't got power to his second switch.

Your probably right Any Diagrams anywhere?

 

[Dal]

So you want two switches (in the form of a double) to control a light each? Not one switch to control both?

Quite right. One of the switches operates one light the other swith operates the second light.

 

[notb665]

Can you adapt it from this?

http://www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:lighting:lighting_circuit_layouts

 

[Space cat]

Dal, does that double switch have six terminals altogether? Which ones did you try to use for your two lights?

 

[MarkBarl]

Did you put the power cable to the shed yourself?

 

[Albert]

I know it is a silly remark but I know that we all concentrate on the live supply, but what about the neutral?

 

[Taylortwocities]

15mm cable, hmm - that's very rare