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How to wire this new wall switch

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  • 24-07-2018 6:59pm
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    mcmorrowg
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭


    Anyone know how to connect the wires from the current light switch to the new?

    Help appreciated


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    yes, but you'll need an electrician because it needs a neutral and there is currently none at your switch.

    feed goes into live an neutral (brown =live, blue= neutral)
    then there's three switches l1,l2 and l3 wire one to each, each one controls a different light


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    alan4cult
    Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭alan4cult


    You can get (but more expensive) wifi switches that don't require a neutral.

    Best way though is to get an electrician to run a neutral, but if it's not a plaster wall then chasing will be needed.


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    kurtainsider
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭kurtainsider


    The cheapest and handiest way is, if you can manage it, to put the new receiver (is that what it is?) on the ceiling near the actual light you want to control. There's a neutral there. You might need to think of how you can do it without t looking strange.


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,551 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    kurtainsider wrote: »
    The cheapest and handiest way is, if you can manage it, to put the new receiver (is that what it is?) on the ceiling near the actual light you want to control. There's a neutral there. You might need to think of how you can do it without t looking strange.
    The light switch would over ride it. And it’s a multi gang switch so he’d have to get one for each light


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    kurtainsider
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭kurtainsider


    ted1 wrote: »
    The light switch would over ride it. And it’s a multi gang switch so he’d have to get one for each light

    He'd need a receiver to replace each switch anyway. A competent electrician could find the first light in the circuit without any trouble. The alternative is to get a neutral down to that switch which is unlikely to be easy.


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