unintelligible wiring!

[ban-all-sheds]

Are you sure you have them in the same connector?

Don't think so.

When you say reds 1,2 and 3 should be connected, is it enough to have them in separate bits of the same connector block or should I be stuffing them all in the same hole, as it were?

They must be connected together.

Please spend some time learning how lighting circuits work...

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

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Are you sure you have them in the same connector?

Don't think so.

When you say reds 1,2 and 3 should be connected, is it enough to have them in separate bits of the same connector block or should I be stuffing them all in the same hole, as it were?

They must be connected together.

Please spend some time learning how lighting circuits work...

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

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Are you sure you have them in the same connector?

Don't think so.

When you say reds 1,2 and 3 should be connected, is it enough to have them in separate bits of the same connector block or should I be stuffing them all in the same hole, as it were?

They must be connected together.

Please spend some time learning how lighting circuits work...

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

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Are you sure you have them in the same connector?

Don't think so.

When you say reds 1,2 and 3 should be connected, is it enough to have them in separate bits of the same connector block or should I be stuffing them all in the same hole, as it were?

They must be connected together.

Please spend some time learning how lighting circuits work...

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

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Are you sure you have them in the same connector?

Don't think so.

When you say reds 1,2 and 3 should be connected, is it enough to have them in separate bits of the same connector block or should I be stuffing them all in the same hole, as it were?

They must be connected together.

Please spend some time learning how lighting circuits work...

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

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Are you sure you have them in the same connector?

Don't think so.

When you say reds 1,2 and 3 should be connected, is it enough to have them in separate bits of the same connector block or should I be stuffing them all in the same hole, as it were?

They must be connected together.

Please spend some time learning how lighting circuits work...

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

 

[EFLImpudence]

What's a loop connector?

The loop connector is the middle part of a ceiling rose - which I think Sparkticus is writing about.

However, I think you are using terminal connectors in which case you should put the three red wires in the same hole.

 

[czeeczee]

I am happy to report that Elvis has left the building....and left the lights on behind him!! I stuffed 'em all into one hole. Makes sense now, since when I look at it the connector block I was using didn't...er...connect between the different channels. I will still get someone less inept to look at it to be sure I'm not going to demolish the street by electrical inferno, but, meanwhile, can look forward tonight to not discovering with my bare feet every impediment, obstacle, and painful particle lurking upstairs in the dark. Thank you all so much. If ever you need to know how to make a really good quiche, I'm your girl. As if....

 

[czeeczee]

I am happy to report that Elvis has left the building....and left the lights on behind him!! I stuffed 'em all into one hole. Makes sense now, since when I look at it the connector block I was using didn't...er...connect between the different channels. I will still get someone less inept to look at it to be sure I'm not going to demolish the street by electrical inferno, but, meanwhile, can look forward tonight to not discovering with my bare feet every impediment, obstacle, and painful particle lurking upstairs in the dark. Thank you all so much. If ever you need to know how to make a really good quiche, I'm your girl. As if....

 

[JohnW2]

Are you sure you have them in the same connector?

Don't think so.

When you say reds 1,2 and 3 should be connected, is it enough to have them in separate bits of the same connector block or should I be stuffing them all in the same hole, as it were?

They must be connected together.
Please spend some time learning how lighting circuits work...
http://www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:lighting[/QUOTE]
25 copies (if I've counted correctly!) of one posting has surely got to be some sort of record - congratulations, BAS

Kind Regards, John.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I have alerted the mods to both the multiple posts and the site problem which led to their existence.

 

[JohnW2]

I have alerted the mods to both the multiple posts and the site problem which led to their existence.

The site has been flakey for at least a couple of hours. I guess one just have to be patient (not one of my virtues!) and wait for it to time out before trying again. This is such a common problem (usually in a smaller way) on this site that one can't help but think that some 'mending' would be of value! ... it usually feels as if simpl 'server slowness' is probably the issue.

Kind Regards, John

 

[czeeczee]

It must be me- I'm a total Jonah. Obviously I'm as much of a disaster with websites as I am with electrics. I do have Physics A level but since I'm doing well these days to get out of the house with two shoes the same colour it's likely I've forgotten most of it. I did spend some time learning - but the two things I needed to know (that the switch might have two red wires and that the connector block won't necessarily connect all the wires) don't seem to appear in the Literature for the Pig Ignorant Householder. I won't be doing any more......as far as I'm concerned now, How to Do Electrics is based on pick up the phone and find someone who gets it. Thanks for all the help. CC

 

[holmslaw]

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[sparkticus]

Is it safe to come back in now?


Brilliant!! your lights are on (small pun intended)

Don't know what happened to the site last night, could not log on all evening and I see BASs desk was hit by a twister scattering his carbon copies everywhere