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Mike Barnes

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I have just wired a couple of lamps in my loft over the garage. I have
taken the power from from a redundant power plug on the ceiling that
was put there for an electric garage door. I used a switch ( Marbo 20A
DP ) with a neon in the hope that this would glow when the loft lights
were on. it doesn't. The switch is located next to the power plug..

From reading I gather that neons dont glow in a single wire circuit ,
given the proximity of the power source would it possible to pass both
sides of the circuit through the two paths of the switch to achieve
a glowing neon.

Yes. In fact that seems to me to be the obvious and easiest way to wire
it up and I can't see why you've done it differently, or how proximity
is relevant, unless I'm missing something.

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Mike Barnes