"al" wrote in message
. uk...
":::Jerry::::" wrote in message
eenews.net...
There does seem to be some confusion about basic feeds, switched
feeds
and (neutral) returns though, if someone can't get to grips with
what
needs to be present already were they wish to extend the circuit
from
that to me suggests that they need to learn considerably more
before
they start altering existing wiring.

Again, this came around out of trying to add a second light where
one was
needed while that side of the ceiling was being re-decorated.
Unfortunately
the other side wasn't and I really don't want to destroy it. There
is no
part of the lighting loop available to me at all to take feed from
for this
switch. I therefore dangled the cable down, connected it up, tried
it ...

That is my point, you tried something that basic knowledge said could
not be done, you shouldn't have even tried it - what if this
'exercise' had not be as harmless as you thought or indeed it turned
out to be ?

and it didn't work. I disconnected it and posted here to make sense
of what
I'd done and why it didn't work - which I now perfectly understand.

My point is, you should have posted here first surely, but then basic
circuit knowledge should have told you all you need to know...


My only option now really is to take a fused feed from the ring main
junction box by my boiler, which I can reasonably well conceal up to
the
switch after digging myself a little trench in the plaster ... which
I
fortunately haven't papered over yet in that area.


Or consider doing the job correctly, irrespective of what need
redecorating...