Down Lights

[alfiemoo]

Hi I have a client that has 6 down lights in her bathroom with a single gang one way switch installed so when switch all six lights come on. (Lights wired using a single jb as a 3 plate and all the lights are daisy chained off as usual).

My client wants the light switch changed to a double gang so at night when someone wants just to use the loo only one of the six lights come on. Then when normal bathroom use is needed the other switch is pushed and all six lights come on.

I have moved from the automotive side to domestic electrical. In a car I could use a diode to achieve this set up.

Please help. Client really doesn't want one switch operating 5 lights and one switch operating one light.

 

[Lurch]

1 switch switches 1 light on, other switches 5 lights + 6th via a relay.

 

[Andy™]

or use a DP switch... (probably have to use grid though)

 

[NozSpark]

I'd go with Andy's DP switch.... Do Click make a module DP switch?

Yes they do.... Its a MD018..

 

[alfiemoo]

Can you talk me through the double pole switching please

 

[NozSpark]

Power in to both sides of the dp switch and sp switch

5 lights powered from 1 side of dp switch, 1 light from other,,,, link switched side of sp switch and (1 light) side of dp switch

 

[steptoe]

denmans do a range now with interchangable switch formats

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

You can do it with a pair of two way switches and a bit of unconventional strapping....

If someone wants to check my logic out...

but basically if switch 1 is on A & B will be on

if switch 1 is off then switch 2 can only turn on light A

so wire 5x lamps to B position & 1 lamp to A position.



Guinness

 

[kerching]

You can do it with a pair of two way switches and a bit of unconventional strapping....

If someone wants to check my logic out...

but basically if switch 1 is on A & B will be on

if switch 1 is off then switch 2 can only turn on light A

so wire 5x lamps to B position & 1 lamp to A position.

LIGHT SWITCHES.jpg

 Looks ok to me.....BUT MR Merlot has just left the building!

As Prof Wolfe would have said. "A vewy ewegant sowution, wewww dun"

Guinness

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

I have done a job like this my fitting a pir sensor in the bathroom for just one light. The others still operate via the original switch. Advantage is this normally can be done without having to chase any walls or boxes.

 

[steptoe]

You can do it with a pair of two way switches and a bit of unconventional strapping....

If someone wants to check my logic out...

but basically if switch 1 is on A & B will be on

if switch 1 is off then switch 2 can only turn on light A

so wire 5x lamps to B position & 1 lamp to A position.

LIGHT SWITCHES.jpg

Guinness

it will work,

as long as you have the switches in the correct combination,

simpler to simply use a 2gang with a one way and a DP on it.