Convert two way switching to one way
 

Our kitchen lights are switched from both the main door and the back
door. In practice, we don't need the back door switch.

What is the easiest way to convert this so it's just switched from the
main door?

I thought maybe just join the correct pair of wires behind the switch
plate? What do you do with the spare one? Just jam it into a wago
connector so it's insulated?

It's been wired in the normal way according to the wiki.

Whilst on the subject, is Adam okay? I haven't seen him posting recently.

Convert two way switching to one way
 

On 08/11/2020 11:31, GB wrote:
Our kitchen lights are switched from both the main door and the back
door. In practice, we don't need the back door switch.

What is the easiest way to convert this so it's just switched from the
main door?...

Stop using the other one. :-)


--
Colin Bignell

Convert two way switching to one way
 

GB wrote:

I thought maybe just join the correct pair of wires behind the switch
plate? What do you do with the spare one? Just jam it into a wago
connector so it's insulated?

yes, join the wires from COM and L1 in one wago, and isolate the
remaining wire from L2 in another wago, if that leaves the remaining
switch "upside down" swap L1 and L2

It's been wired in the normal way according to the wiki.

Whilst on the subject, is Adam okay? I haven't seen him posting recently.

Yes, I've just seem him on-site ...

Convert two way switching to one way
 

On 08/11/2020 13:11, Andy Burns wrote:
GB wrote:

I thought maybe just join the correct pair of wires behind the switch
plate? What do you do with the spare one? Just jam it into a wago
connector so it's insulated?

yes, join the wires from COM and L1 in one wago, and isolate the
remaining wire from L2 in another wago, if that leaves the remaining
switch "upside down" swap L1 and L2

Thanks.

Colin is of course quite right, and I stuck a bit of tape on to act as a
reminder. I'm hoping to tidy that up.



It's been wired in the normal way according to the wiki.

Whilst on the subject, is Adam okay? I haven't seen him posting recently.

Yes, I've just seem him on-site ...

Convert two way switching to one way
 

On 08/11/2020 11:31, GB wrote:
Our kitchen lights are switched from both the main door and the back
door. In practice, we don't need the back door switch.

What is the easiest way to convert this so it's just switched from the
main door?

I thought maybe just join the correct pair of wires behind the switch
plate? What do you do with the spare one? Just jam it into a wago
connector so it's insulated?

It's been wired in the normal way according to the wiki.



Whilst on the subject, is Adam okay? I haven't seen him posting recently.

I am OK but busy/knackered.

ATM I usually leave the house at 5.30am and travel to Leicester (which
is why Andy saw me on site today as I invited him to look at the
weirdest house I have rewired) and then get back home around 6pm. Left
early today.




--
Adam

Convert two way switching to one way
 

On 08/11/2020 15:46, ARW wrote:
On 08/11/2020 11:31, GB wrote:
Our kitchen lights are switched from both the main door and the back
door. In practice, we don't need the back door switch.

What is the easiest way to convert this so it's just switched from the
main door?

I thought maybe just join the correct pair of wires behind the switch
plate? What do you do with the spare one? Just jam it into a wago
connector so it's insulated?

It's been wired in the normal way according to the wiki.



Whilst on the subject, is Adam okay? I haven't seen him posting recently.

I am OK but busy/knackered.

ATM I usually leave the house at 5.30am and travel to Leicester (which
is why Andy saw me on site today as I invited him to look at the
weirdest house I have rewired) and then get back home around 6pm. Left
early today.


You're doing that 7 days a week? That's quite a commute.

Convert two way switching to one way
 

On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 10:56:39 AM UTC-6, GB wrote:
On 08/11/2020 15:46, ARW wrote:
On 08/11/2020 11:31, GB wrote:
Our kitchen lights are switched from both the main door and the back
door. In practice, we don't need the back door switch.

What is the easiest way to convert this so it's just switched from the
main door?

I thought maybe just join the correct pair of wires behind the switch
plate? What do you do with the spare one? Just jam it into a wago
connector so it's insulated?

It's been wired in the normal way according to the wiki.



Whilst on the subject, is Adam okay? I haven't seen him posting recently.

I am OK but busy/knackered.

ATM I usually leave the house at 5.30am and travel to Leicester (which
is why Andy saw me on site today as I invited him to look at the
weirdest house I have rewired) and then get back home around 6pm. Left
early today.


You're doing that 7 days a week? That's quite a commute.







"oh, the humanity"

mk5000


The heart of love bereaved with hollow eyes and a whisper waiting for words to fill the lies
A heart's rejection sprang quick and laid claim to me
Where's reason when love's swayed and the broken mirror brings--arsis

Convert two way switching to one way
 

On 08/11/2020 16:56, GB wrote:


ATM I usually leave the house at 5.30am and travel to Leicester (which
is why Andy saw me on site today as I invited him to look at the
weirdest house I have rewired) and then get back home around 6pm. Left
early today.


You're doing that 7 days a week?Â* That's quite a commute.


Not 7 days a week.....

I was in Lincoln on Saturday (with a couple of lights to swap in
Doncaster on the way home). Less mileage but it's a longer drive time-wise.


--
Adam