I picked up a thread from uk-diy news group about towel radiators -
however I treid the same approach and so far am having no luck.

I am using a digital timer to connect to a fused/switched spur to
automate a Towel Radiator switching on and off.

The timer has two live wires and the spur has two live and two
negative
connections ( one for in and one for out).

The spur has always worked, its the addition of the timer that is the
issue.

I took the two connectios from the LIVE in on the spur and connected
to
the timer, then the other connection from the timer back into the
spurs
live IN connection.

I switched the timer to ON. Yet Im not getting any power to the
heater. I
checked the fuse - it was fine.

Can you offer any advice from your experiences?

On 27 Nov 2004 04:51:09 -0800, (Mark) strung
together this:

Can you offer any advice from your experiences?

Well, you've totally cocked this one up!

Firstly, you should fit the timer *after* the spur so that you can
isolate it.
Secondly, the towel rail now has no neutral, (not negative!).

What you need to do is connect the two cables back into the spur as
they were before and un wire the clock completely.
Remove the two wires from the out of the spur and fit the live into
the switched output on the clock and the neutral into the neutral on
the clock.
Now fit a wire from the live out on the spur to the live on the clock
and a wire from the neutral out on the spur to the neutral on the
clock.

Alternatively, ring someone who isn't likely to blow your house up as
you seem to be a little bit out of your depth.
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SJW
A.C.S. Ltd
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