Wondering if anyone can help. I’ve tapped into a switch in my garage to to extend to another switch that will manually turn down lights on to see if they work ok. I’ve ran T&E from existing feed to my new switch, there I put live to com neutral to term block. Then from there 3core&E (brown to com, black to L1, grey to term block, e to e, to a dusk till dawn sensor. Wired brown to live, grey to neutral, black to L1. Then from there a T&E (brown L1, blue N, E to E, to the down lights. Thing is when the (garage light is on) and the new switch for the lights are on to see if they work ok they do. If I turn the new switch off the solar cell kicks in and they go out. But then if you switch the garage light of the spot lights go out. Can anyone help out
Switch controlling override switch?
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no idea what youve done... try drawing it out and post that instead
Scary stuff
er.... you really need to learn how a switch works. what you have done is never going to work...
just because its black (or blue) doesnt mean its a neutral...
just because its black (or blue) doesnt mean its a neutral...
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clearer diagrams would be better. looks more like youre using a 2 way switch with line, neutral & sl all connected to it...
if you really have taken just a unswitch line & neutral from the first switch then there is no way switching something after that would interfere with a light before it, so youve not connected something correctly
if you really have taken just a unswitch line & neutral from the first switch then there is no way switching something after that would interfere with a light before it, so youve not connected something correctly
When you say that you have a Live and Neutral at the switch......... is that all that's there? (apart from an earth)
have you actually confirmed that your 'neutral' really is a neutral?
Looks like it's already 2 way ,,,, so you may need to confirm that the live you've connected to is really a permanent one and not switched
think youre onto something there
depending how its wired then either com is the perm live, com is the SL and there is no perm live on any of them, or 1 of the strappers is a perm live but not the com.
So I’ve tapped my brown into live feed. When garage lights are on switch for the down lights work no problem. When the garage lights get switched off the switch for downlights don’t work. And when I switch the garage lights on the downlights go on then solar puts them out cause it’s daylight. Where I’ve tapped the brown into there’s a constant live feed with the lights being switched off.
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Think I would have to be there with my meter and a pen and paper to draw out to work it out as I’m getting confused.
Think it would be easy to work out if there.
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Think it would be easy to work out if there.
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