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Default Wiring a bathroom pull-cord light switch

Al Deveron wrote:


The cable from the mains has a red a black and a bare copper earth.
The cable to the light is the same type.


There is some possibility for confusion here...!

If you really do mean that the mains feed comes to the switch position -
i.e. there is a cable in and another out to the light, then Andy gave
you the correct wiring.

If however you only have one cable into the switch position, then there
is also the possibility that you are in fact looking at a switch wire
from a "loop in" wiring arangement. Here the mains in will go the
ceiling rose (or light fitting), another mains out may run to the next
light in another room, and there will be a switch wire that runs to the
switch. If that is the case, then you need Guy's wiring.

What is the correct way to wire up the switch?


That depends! ;-)


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Cheers,

John.

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