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Help with lighting switch wiring
I am in the process of updating some of my light switches with X10
dimming modules. Everything has been fine up until now - all light switches have had live and switched live that simply get connected to the X10 module and then I connect to a new momentary switch. I have just taken apart a dual light switch, each switch controls a single light. There is no secondary switch to control these lights. There are two runs of cable, the first cable has :- 1 * red (r1) , 1 * black, 1 * earth The second cable has :- 2* red (r2 & r3), 2 * black, 1* earth The wiring in the switch :- R1 - B1Way R2 - AComm R3 - BComm Bcomm is connected to ATWay using another red cable All 3 black cables are joined together. What I am looking for is to simply get a live and switched live for each light switch so that I can add the X10 modules. Any help greatly appreciated. |
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Help with lighting switch wiring
Cup of coffee, and a few minutes later and it all makes sense.
R3 is shared live. R2 and R1 are switched lives for each light :-) |
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Help with lighting switch wiring
In article .com,
wrote: Cup of coffee, and a few minutes later and it all makes sense. R3 is shared live. R2 and R1 are switched lives for each light :-) Yup. The unusual thing is the feed has been brought to the switch - hence all the blacks being paralleled. Is it for switching table lights rather than overheads? -- *Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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