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Default Mystery cable

On Saturday, 28 March 2020 16:05:57 UTC, Muddymike wrote:
On 28/03/2020 15:49, ARW wrote:
On 28/03/2020 15:32, Muddymike wrote:
Ive just pulled out a length of dead cable that wasn't connected at
either end.
It was a twin core with red outer sheath containing one red and one
plain green cores. Any suggestions what such cable could have been for?



Lighting?

A variation of this

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/...ightingCct.jpg


Maybe, but Ive yet to find the neutral.

Mike


I had that arrangement you will find the neutral will be a separate single core that connects all the ceiling rosettes. The live cable you describe looped from each light switch with a switched live using the same type of cable went back to the rosette