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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:53:13 UTC, (Rob
Gilchrist) wrote:

Hi
I recently moved house and at the weekend I pulled down an old lean-to
outside the kitchen. The lean-to had a light fitting and was connected
by 2 x 1sq mm PVC twin core cables. As part of the tidy up, I turned
off the electricity and cut the cables. Now I no longer have lights in
the ground floor of the house, I have taped up the cables so they are
not exposed and checked the fusebox and all fuses are OK.

Am I right in assuming one of the cables is the main circuit and the
other is the cable to the light switch?

Probably not. The common arrangement is that power feed runs to every
light fitting. The switch cable then drops from the ceiling rose to the
switch.

The two cables you cut were probably power 'in' (ultimately from the
consumer unit), and power 'out' (to the rest of the light fittings).

Did the lean-to have a cable coming from its light fitting to the
switch?
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Bob Eager
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