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Ok, I have swapped the switch for one a back if house upstairs, on same circuit. That kept coming on. I ruled out outside interference as I live on a building site with 4 neighbors. After 5pm there is no passing traffic. I have just swapped the switch with the livingroom dimmer downstairs, and...

Ok. Changed landing fitting to normal bayonet fitting. Gave it few hours. Bedroom light back on again?? So no energy saving on circuit. Dimmer wired correct, I think, see previous post for picture. Why does light turn on by itself?? Getting annoyed with it now and might have to pay for sparky...

Picture as requested, about to change landing fitting to normal bayonet first to see if this solves it.

The fitting in the bedroom is normal bayonet fitting.

Ffs. So to over come this? Replace landing with normal bulb? ---------- Post Auto-Merged at 21:56 ---------- Previous post was made at 21:54 ---------- No bathroom is proper fitting for bathroom and looks normal bulb. Back bedroom hasn't affected it. Just landing and occasionally bathroom...

Yeah it is blue with a bit of brown sleeve on it going into the load connector. The switch itself only operates the bedroom. But directly behind that switch is the landing switch, and that bulb is energy saving. I assume it must be on the same circuit as its on the same trip switch...

Will post the photo tommorow as I'm just using phone at min as no Internet for laptop yet cos recently moved. Had to turn upstairs lights trip off for tonight, every few hours the light turns on..

Good point. So can what is normally the neutral be substituted for the switched live??

Ive changed my bedroom light switch for an IR dimmer. It works as an IR dimmer fine. However it randomly turns on by itself, and sometimes when other lights upstairs are turned on. I have it wired: Live wire into live connector Neutral wire into connector marked with an arrow with wiggly line...