This install is in a garage. There is already a flourescent light in the garage that works off from a single switch. I have boarded out the loft bit of the garage so I decided to run a couple of lights up. I wan them isolated where if I enter the garage and want to use teh flourescent light downstairs only that light comes on but if I want to go upstairs then I have to switch the second switch which controls the upstairs lights.
This is what I did....
I cut the main cable to the flourescent light and installed a splitter, connecting the cable to the flourescent light and then another cable to the first of the 2 lights (The lights are rose type lights with 6 connectors), I then run another cable from that first light to a single switch with COM & L1 - I think). I then run another cable out of the first light to the second and final light. I followed the cable connectivity as per the diagrams in the URLs below. What I cannot seem to find is how to connect the final light (also with 6 connectors in the fitting) so that when I switch on the upstairs switch it (not the main garage switch to the flourescent light) turns both of the upstairs lights on. A couple of combinations I have tried has either turned the final light on from the switch downstairs that turns the flourescent light on or the final light just does not turn on with either switch. Both of these combinations tried always turn the first light on as it should be when switching the upstairs switch on.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Ultimate Handyman: ceiling rose wiring
Looped Ceiling Rose
This is what I did....
I cut the main cable to the flourescent light and installed a splitter, connecting the cable to the flourescent light and then another cable to the first of the 2 lights (The lights are rose type lights with 6 connectors), I then run another cable from that first light to a single switch with COM & L1 - I think). I then run another cable out of the first light to the second and final light. I followed the cable connectivity as per the diagrams in the URLs below. What I cannot seem to find is how to connect the final light (also with 6 connectors in the fitting) so that when I switch on the upstairs switch it (not the main garage switch to the flourescent light) turns both of the upstairs lights on. A couple of combinations I have tried has either turned the final light on from the switch downstairs that turns the flourescent light on or the final light just does not turn on with either switch. Both of these combinations tried always turn the first light on as it should be when switching the upstairs switch on.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Ultimate Handyman: ceiling rose wiring
Looped Ceiling Rose