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2 way switching on a single ceiling rose?

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  • 18-07-2011 10:52pm
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    hunter164
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    Do ya do this using the loop in method? Or else do ya run your feed from the board to the ceiling rose and then 3 cables down to the switch?

    Thanks,
    Martin.


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    jsharks
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    id normally wire lights by looping in and out, then take a single brown (feed) from ceilin rose to switch 1. run a twin brown between both sw 1 and sw 2 as a strapper. then take a single brown from sw 2 back to your ceilin rose as a sw wire. hope this is of help.


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    meercat
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    jsharks wrote: »
    id normally wire lights by looping in and out, then take a single brown (feed) from ceilin rose to switch 1. run a twin brown between both sw 1 and sw 2 as a strapper. then take a single brown from sw 2 back to your ceilin rose as a sw wire. hope this is of help.
    If you do it this way,don't forget the earth to each switch
    Be careful not to have 2 lives at landing pendant(upstairs circuit and downstairs circuit)
    I find the easiest way is to feed the landing light with n&e off the last (bedroom) pendant
    Then take switchwire off landing switch (2 strappers connected to hall below)


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    hunter164
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    Got it sorted lads thanks


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    Bruthal
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    jsharks wrote: »
    id normally wire lights by looping in and out, then take a single brown (feed) from ceilin rose to switch 1. run a twin brown between both sw 1 and sw 2 as a strapper. then take a single brown from sw 2 back to your ceilin rose as a sw wire. hope this is of help.

    It can also be done by taking a twin brown from the ceiling rose to the first switch and looping that between the L1`s and L2`s of the 2 switches, and also a single brown linking the 2 commons of the switches, so no wire needs to be run back to the ceiling rose from the second switch on a different route. One of browns in twin brown leaving ceiling rose is switch feed, the other is now the switch wire.

    I prefer the switch feed/loop feed method myself though.


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