As an electrical engineer of 40 years experience, I am impressed with the way and the terminology used to explain how the 2 way lighting system works. Only one criticism, is that you forgot to mention the “ strappers form the switching link between the 2 switches . But apart from that 👏👏👏WELL DONE
I know one thing was watching all your videos and your good advice I've replaced every single light in my house with LED I never had the confidence once but I do now. Thank 😊 🙏
Been a licensed electrical contractor here in the US since the 80's, I wish our outlets were designed with the splicing terminal blocks like you guys use. We're still stuck with wire nuts or other splicing connectors that take up much more box space. I find it interesting you guys use the term "neutral" for the grounded phase conductor because there's no split phase power in your country, only single phase 240V. In the US we use split single phase power that actually has a neutral in the middle between the two 240V phase conductors to provide 120V power as well. To reduce the lethality of electrical shock, we in the US use 120V for general lighting, wall receptacles, and small appliances while reserving the 240V power for major appliances like stoves, water heater, air conditioning, and so on. When you ground one side of a single phase power(like you guys do), we in the US call that unbalanced grounding system. When you ground the middle conductor of a split single phase power (like we do here in the US), we call that a balanced grounding system. Noticed you guys incorporate switches with your receptacles. We don't do that here in the US because it's redundant since everything you'll be plugging in has it's own power switch.
@@TheDIYGuy1 I forgot to mention that since it's the middle conductor of the split phase power that's grounded as used in the US, the voltage to ground from any of the two 240V phase conductors is cut in half (120V), again reducing the lethality by electrical shock from the 240V phase conductors.
Very simple explanation and very helpful videos by this gentleman. I wired my two way switch after watching this video. Also done my led down lights in my kitchen by watching you video. Thanks 🙏
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO. WE HAVE A DOUBLE TOGGLE LIGHT SWITCH SAME COLOUR AS THE ONE YOU'RE USING HERE. (2 SWITCHES ON THE SAME LIGHT SWITCH IF YOU UNDERSTAND ME). ONE OF THE SWITCHES HAS BROKEN & WON'T TURN OFF. I HAD TO LEAVE IT ON ALL NIGHT UNTIL I BOUGHT THE REPLACEMENT TODAY. THE PROBLEM WE HAVE IS THAT ON INSPECTION WE HAVE OLD WIRING WHICH WE DIDN'T REALISE WE HAD. (BLACK & RED) THIS VIDEO WILL HELP US. THANK YOU.
Yeah good vid a tip from a spark when wiring a loop in loop out system mark your feed&neutral on the grey insulation with an x your switch wire with a line across your switch so your feeds are x your switch are marked- then when stripping your switch wire whether it's blue or black bed your switch wire in to a s shape so u know that's your switch wire be fore putting your brown sleeving just how I was taught as a lad👍
Superb video. I never use ceiling roses - wagon connectors in Wago box with just flexible cord to light fitting. One problem with 2-way switch guides is books show different methods (both correct). Well done for stressing need for sleeving to show switched live
Thank you so much for posting this. I was helping my neighbor who was moving out go back to his original lights. I neglected to make a note of how the wiring was presuming that all the live and all the neutral where together. On a 2 switch 1 gangway hallway bulb. The result was the light being on regardless of the switch position. But when you turned one switch off the breaker would trip. I tested it with my voltmeter and found one neutral made the voltage 240 here in the UK the other 2 nothing. after watching your post. I placed the live neutral on the 2 post with the bulb live and the other 2 neutral with the bulb neutral it still tripped the breaker. I swapped the switch set up so that the 240 voltage was with one of the neutrals I found the bulb was on but lower in brightness, when one of the switches was turned off it went brighter when the other was turned off nothing. So I swapped the non load carrying neutrals for the switches and it worked perfect. So thank you without your vid I would not have tried to wire the switch as part of the circuit. It makes perfect sense when it works. But I was so confused before it did...Ray
Your videos are very educational for apprentices and DIY electrics that so many people need educational videos on because I've seen some really bad DIY jobs! I started off in the deep end of electrics at a dodgy factory doing 3 phase well mad to do 3 phase has a kid but I'm lucky because for some reason I understand electrics and love how advanced electronics and electrical equipment has advanced today and lucky no one died from any of my DIY jobs! I can see your passion for electrics, thank you 😊 love what you do!
It would have been nice if u explained via maybe a switch diagram how the current flows through the switches and is subsequent turned on or off by each switch it would give people a better grasp of what exactly is happening in two way switching that said it was still a great tutorial
Thank you so much. Gave me the confidence to remove all wires and start again as I'd previously mixed the and couldn't get it going properly. Old house with a mix of colors for wires! Figured it a out do VERY much appreciated
Thank you for this video, your step by step guide made adding an additional light switch in the garage into a simple task, a lot easier to understand then the enclosed written instructions with the light switch. Your videos are appreciated so much, thank you.
Thank you for the wiring breakdown. I'm soon to be tackling breaking down a twin switch at the bottom of my stairway; it has a 3 way and a 2 way switch (3 way for the stairwell and 2 way for the hallway). I'm wanting to split off the 3 way to its own switch and the 2 way to be converted to a single 1 way switch so I can put a smart switch in its place, then disable the 2nd 2 way switch for the hallway since it's never used.
Thanks for good video.Well explained.There is a flaw with looping supply in ceiling roses to chain all lights.Imagine there is a fault and lights are flickering in some rooms.You'd have do go through all roses to check all connections not knowing how place has been wired up. For me every room should have individual cable supplying lights.Obviously this would involve opening consumer unit and checking connections there.Which for me would be faster. Also if someone without electrical knowledge opens up light switches or roses and by mistake removes sleeves while disconnecting some cores it will consuse everyboidy after trying to fix whole wiring. For me cables labeling is something should be as standard.
I always thought that the loop wire from one rose to another was 1.5mm and from the rose to your switch was 1mm? Liked the video, it jogged my memory, soon I’ll be starting my project 👍👍
Thanks for this. In our new house our landing lights only appear to work from up stairs, I removed the plates last night to see if the non responsive switch in the hallway was even wired. It is, so I'm going to tackle this at some stage this weekend. Sadly they're all red, everything. So I'll need to disable the power and grab a bit of wire and run some continuity tests to identify all cables so I can number / colour them. What I noticed was 1 common, 1 L1 & L2 on both switches so I'm definitely missing one wire by the looks of it. But surely there's a way without major surgery? I'm fine with electrics but admittedly 2 ways etc do confuse me. Thanks, very well explained.
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Great video again. Might me worth mentioning that you can get double brown twin and earth cable for the cable between rose and switch, this saves the sleeving bit. If you were say rewiring all lighting circuits might be better. 👍
So helpful. I'd like to see 3 way switches with three different lights on three different floors of the staircase. Just like after adding dormer loft conversion 🥹
The best video I've seen on two way lighting after making a mess of it myself had one light on landing ,and one downstairs ,is it just repeat the process many thanks
Another great video, thank you. Your electrical videos are the best on TH-cam, you explain things very clearly and I learn so much from you. Really good to see your channel growing as well - keep up the great work 👍🏻👍🏻
This is a job is just pending this coming week on my large Scottish fisherman's house, which I am currently totally refurbishing. Just going to rip-down the hallway ceiling, having already taken down and replated the landing ceiling, and hack-off all the wall's, before the hallway/landing rewire goes in at the end of this coming week..
Well said, so many channels insist on heavy rock music playing whilst trying to give instructions…. I just don’t get that 🤔. Your videos are simply superb 👍
Excellent! Absolutely spot on, detailed and easy to follow. I thought I'd be skipping through but, couldn't pull away... 14 minutes of invaluable learning/education. Keep up the good work matey
Brilliant. Your explanation is the best. Could you created similar video that show how to connect with double switch when one switch control bottom level and top level and top switch control bottom level and top?
I understand the concept.. I am looking to get rid of one switch.. my set up is that I have the brown wire going into comm. and the L1 is the black wire.. there are several browns connected together and blues connected together.. can I connect brown and blue to the others and leave the black unconnected and capped?
Hi i am trying to wire lights in my shed. I have been watching loads of your videos and they seem really helpful. For starters i dont know if i have bought the right kit. I have a consumer unit in the shed and run some sockets from it, and run another wire from the 6amp RCB (I think its called) to a switch with two switches on it. I wanted to put one light outside the shed and a strip light on the inside. I was wondering if you could help witha quick demo on how to do it and i can follow alnong like I have been doing previously. By the way I havnt connceted it to the house yet LOL really nervous for doing that until im sure i have done what I can to get it all wired up completely. Again many thanks for your tutorials they are a great help.
Another great video. You make electrics seem so easy! One request...could we have a quick wiring diagram at the end that we could screenshot and refer back to? 😉
Run hot to the pole of one switch, hot from the pole of the second switch to the load. Connect the other side oif the load to neutral. Connect one leg of each switch to one leg of the other. Connect the remaining switch legs. How you route the conductors depends on the conduit or cable routing. If there is power and neutral at the load, you could run a 3-conductor from it to each switch and spice everything at the load.
Hi, great vid. I have this in my living room. I want to add some spot lights to a media unit and have it working off of one of the switches. Can you just replace the switch to a 2 gang switch and bridge a live to have the second switch in the 2 gang switch to operate the spot lights separately whilst leaving everything else working the same as it was?
Just came across your TH-cam channel and your video showing the wiring layout is the same as mine but instead of com at the top it's L1 and L2 and 3 below. I have the BG electrical evolve single touch dimmer switch and on the back are, a symbol with a wavy line with an arrow through it, s.link and L connections. My question is does the black wire brown sleeve go into wavy line symbol, the grey wire brown sleeve and blue wire into s.link and 2 brown wires into L?
Thanks for the video, this makes perfect sense, however I’ve got 2 light switches in my living room that control the centre rose and both switches only have 3 wires 🤔. I can’t remember whether it’s ever worked, but basically you can switch it on with the first switch, then off or on with the second switch. But to use that second switch, the first has to be in the on position! Likewise if the 2nd switch is in its off position, the first won’t work! No wire markings so I don’t know what is what and it’s not so easy to reach the rose and switches with a multimeter. Am baffled.
Brilliant...quick question..... If you are wiring in a 2 way switched section of down lights that are only a part of the main lighting ring in a kitchen ( so no individual cieling rose) do you treat each zone of lights as a separate "room" and run your twin and earth from the consumer board to your first light or does the twin and earth carrying the live terminate at the switches? So in my case I have 6 external downlights in a soffit that will have an external PIR and an internal switch. So do I 3 core and earth from internal switch 1 to PIR and then 2 core and earth from PIR to downlight 1 and then daisy chain the downlights together...and if so does the live feed going from consumer board go to the internal switch or to the first downlight? In the kitchen there will be 5 different lighting zones all independently 2 way switched.....I won't be connecting up..sparky will do that... But I need to run the cables to fit soffit and need to know where the cables need to run. We are still waiting to instruct a sparky as they are all taking an age to get prices together ......thanks.
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Got to admit your explanation has saved my brain from a lot of stress wiring old 50 plus conduit thanks for your time and making it easy
As an electrical engineer of 40 years experience, I am impressed with the way and the terminology used to explain how the 2 way lighting system works. Only one criticism, is that you forgot to mention the “ strappers form the switching link between the 2 switches . But apart from that 👏👏👏WELL DONE
Thanks 😊
Superb. Thanks mate. Need another switch at the front of my garage. You’ve answered a lot of questions.
I know one thing was watching all your videos and your good advice I've replaced every single light in my house with LED I never had the confidence once but I do now. Thank 😊 🙏
That is awesome!
Been a licensed electrical contractor here in the US since the 80's, I wish our outlets were designed with the splicing terminal blocks like you guys use. We're still stuck with wire nuts or other splicing connectors that take up much more box space.
I find it interesting you guys use the term "neutral" for the grounded phase conductor because there's no split phase power in your country, only single phase 240V. In the US we use split single phase power that actually has a neutral in the middle between the two 240V phase conductors to provide 120V power as well. To reduce the lethality of electrical shock, we in the US use 120V for general lighting, wall receptacles, and small appliances while reserving the 240V power for major appliances like stoves, water heater, air conditioning, and so on.
When you ground one side of a single phase power(like you guys do), we in the US call that unbalanced grounding system. When you ground the middle conductor of a split single phase power (like we do here in the US), we call that a balanced grounding system.
Noticed you guys incorporate switches with your receptacles. We don't do that here in the US because it's redundant since everything you'll be plugging in has it's own power switch.
Pretty interesting to hear
@@TheDIYGuy1 I forgot to mention that since it's the middle conductor of the split phase power that's grounded as used in the US, the voltage to ground from any of the two 240V phase conductors is cut in half (120V), again reducing the lethality by electrical shock from the 240V phase conductors.
Very simple explanation and very helpful videos by this gentleman. I wired my two way switch after watching this video. Also done my led down lights in my kitchen by watching you video. Thanks 🙏
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO. WE HAVE A DOUBLE TOGGLE LIGHT SWITCH SAME COLOUR AS THE ONE YOU'RE USING HERE. (2 SWITCHES ON THE SAME LIGHT SWITCH IF YOU UNDERSTAND ME). ONE OF THE SWITCHES HAS BROKEN & WON'T TURN OFF. I HAD TO LEAVE IT ON ALL NIGHT UNTIL I BOUGHT THE REPLACEMENT TODAY. THE PROBLEM WE HAVE IS THAT ON INSPECTION WE HAVE OLD WIRING WHICH WE DIDN'T REALISE WE HAD. (BLACK & RED) THIS VIDEO WILL HELP US. THANK YOU.
Anytime 👍
Yeah good vid a tip from a spark when wiring a loop in loop out system mark your feed&neutral on the grey insulation with an x your switch wire with a line across your switch so your feeds are x your switch are marked- then when stripping your switch wire whether it's blue or black bed your switch wire in to a s shape so u know that's your switch wire be fore putting your brown sleeving just how I was taught as a lad👍
Superb video. I never use ceiling roses - wagon connectors in Wago box with just flexible cord to light fitting. One problem with 2-way switch guides is books show different methods (both correct). Well done for stressing need for sleeving to show switched live
👍
Thank you so much for posting this. I was helping my neighbor who was moving out go back to his original lights. I neglected to make a note of how the wiring was presuming that all the live and all the neutral where together. On a 2 switch 1 gangway hallway bulb. The result was the light being on regardless of the switch position. But when you turned one switch off the breaker would trip. I tested it with my voltmeter and found one neutral made the voltage 240 here in the UK the other 2 nothing. after watching your post. I placed the live neutral on the 2 post with the bulb live and the other 2 neutral with the bulb neutral it still tripped the breaker. I swapped the switch set up so that the 240 voltage was with one of the neutrals I found the bulb was on but lower in brightness, when one of the switches was turned off it went brighter when the other was turned off nothing. So I swapped the non load carrying neutrals for the switches and it worked perfect. So thank you without your vid I would not have tried to wire the switch as part of the circuit. It makes perfect sense when it works. But I was so confused before it did...Ray
Your videos are very educational for apprentices and DIY electrics that so many people need educational videos on because I've seen some really bad DIY jobs! I started off in the deep end of electrics at a dodgy factory doing 3 phase well mad to do 3 phase has a kid but I'm lucky because for some reason I understand electrics and love how advanced electronics and electrical equipment has advanced today and lucky no one died from any of my DIY jobs! I can see your passion for electrics, thank you 😊 love what you do!
Thanks a lot 😁
It would have been nice if u explained via maybe a switch diagram how the current flows through the switches and is subsequent turned on or off by each switch it would give people a better grasp of what exactly is happening in two way switching that said it was still a great tutorial
Literally a few days ago I was searching for a good guide on this. Wery well explained. Thanks.
Your very welcome. It maybe a few days late but I hope it helped 🙂
Thank you so much. Gave me the confidence to remove all wires and start again as I'd previously mixed the and couldn't get it going properly. Old house with a mix of colors for wires! Figured it a out do VERY much appreciated
Glad it helped!
Having watched various tutorials on fitting a 2 way switch this video is absolutely miles ahead of the others on every level. Big thanks mate
Another great video, thanks. Often wondered how to do it and now I'm off to do the garage light that's been bugging my for ages.
For me as a DiYer and biginner,You are the most simple and easy to understand the explanation on how to..Great! Sir.
That's what this channel is all about
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
I've seen many explanations of how to do this - yours is by far the best/easiest. Thanks!
That's the name of the game for my channel thanks
Great to hear a local boy on the toob! Reckon this channel's going to be a treasure trove.
Always been able to figure this out somehow but without REALLY understanding it… kinda just ‘getting’ it haha… but now I actually understand it!
👍 perfect
Absolutely brilliant tutorial 👏 Thank you so much. Keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing more of the tutorials.
Thank you for this video, your step by step guide made adding an additional light switch in the garage into a simple task, a lot easier to understand then the enclosed written instructions with the light switch. Your videos are appreciated so much, thank you.
Thank you for the wiring breakdown. I'm soon to be tackling breaking down a twin switch at the bottom of my stairway; it has a 3 way and a 2 way switch (3 way for the stairwell and 2 way for the hallway). I'm wanting to split off the 3 way to its own switch and the 2 way to be converted to a single 1 way switch so I can put a smart switch in its place, then disable the 2nd 2 way switch for the hallway since it's never used.
Your welcome. Good luck with the work 👍
Wiring works, but I'd like to know what everything is doing.
Thanks for good video.Well explained.There is a flaw with looping supply in ceiling roses to chain all lights.Imagine there is a fault and lights are flickering in some rooms.You'd have do go through all roses to check all connections not knowing how place has been wired up.
For me every room should have individual cable supplying lights.Obviously this would involve opening consumer unit and checking connections there.Which for me would be faster.
Also if someone without electrical knowledge opens up light switches or roses and by mistake removes sleeves while disconnecting some cores it will consuse everyboidy after trying to fix whole wiring.
For me cables labeling is something should be as standard.
I always thought that the loop wire from one rose to another was 1.5mm and from the rose to your switch was 1mm? Liked the video, it jogged my memory, soon I’ll be starting my project 👍👍
That was really excellently done. Your English is surprisingly good for a Yakuza.
Thanks it worked an absolute treat, I now have a two way switch in the garage. I senced little Norfolk accent in there too! Cheers for video.
Thanks for this. In our new house our landing lights only appear to work from up stairs, I removed the plates last night to see if the non responsive switch in the hallway was even wired. It is, so I'm going to tackle this at some stage this weekend. Sadly they're all red, everything. So I'll need to disable the power and grab a bit of wire and run some continuity tests to identify all cables so I can number / colour them. What I noticed was 1 common, 1 L1 & L2 on both switches so I'm definitely missing one wire by the looks of it. But surely there's a way without major surgery? I'm fine with electrics but admittedly 2 ways etc do confuse me. Thanks, very well explained.
Great - finally I understand..! You’ve just saved me thousands…
This is a really excellent explanation and showing the right things, by far the best video of 2 way switches I've seen, thank you.
Glad it helped!
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Wow, thanks!
Superb Explanation of how to do this correctly. Great video. Subscribed! Thanks very much
The best DIY guy on TH-cam 100 % thank you
Would really like to know how to use wire stripper I keep cutting the copper off making a terrible job...cheers
Brilliant thanks
finally ... thanks
Very well explained mate. You got a subscriber. This is exactly the video i was looking for. Thanks.
Appreciate your time to make this this video
Great video, video clear, all the best for 2023
All the best to you too. Glad you like the video
washing ur videos is better than going to college, verry good explanation, God bless u for ur time
Your welcome 👍
Great video again. Might me worth mentioning that you can get double brown twin and earth cable for the cable between rose and switch, this saves the sleeving bit. If you were say rewiring all lighting circuits might be better. 👍
Thanks
So helpful. I'd like to see 3 way switches with three different lights on three different floors of the staircase. Just like after adding dormer loft conversion 🥹
U must be a professor lovely way u explained soo easy
Amazing - very simple to follow. I’ve been waiting to do this job in our house and now it’s done 🎉
Wonderful!
Your better than my electrical installations tutors at breaking this down 👏
Thanks 👍
as apprentice I do mostly industrial commercial love watching ur videos for domestic so good man keep it up please for my learning 😂
Thanks, will do!
The best video I've seen on two way lighting after making a mess of it myself had one light on landing ,and one downstairs ,is it just repeat the process many thanks
Glad you like the video 👍
Thank you very much. You're a great teacher!
Absolutely fantastic videos. So clear, easy to understand. Love them all.
Glad you like them!
Do lot of time but Very nice and easy way you explan us every one can do it , thanks
Another great video, thank you. Your electrical videos are the best on TH-cam, you explain things very clearly and I learn so much from you. Really good to see your channel growing as well - keep up the great work 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks a lot for the support 👍
Had to watch it a few times, but got there in the end. SO a big THANK YOU 😊 for this video. ( New subscriber)
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This is a job is just pending this coming week on my large Scottish fisherman's house, which I am currently totally refurbishing.
Just going to rip-down the hallway ceiling, having already taken down and replated the landing ceiling, and hack-off all the wall's, before the hallway/landing rewire goes in at the end of this coming week..
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@@TheDIYGuy1 👍
That was a very good explanation! Love your videos!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent Video. Thank you for sharing so beautifully explained step by step practically.
Excellent. Well explained for the DIY ENTHUSIASTS for Home Use of Wiring a Lighting Circuit with 2 Way Switches! (with TOGGLE SWITCH)
Glad it was helpful!
And a Brilliant video .. easy to follow , explained well
And no heavy rock music or drum and base lol 😂
Thanks 👍
Well said, so many channels insist on heavy rock music playing whilst trying to give instructions…. I just don’t get that 🤔. Your videos are simply superb 👍
I'm here to learn how not to burn my house. Very loud and clear message received 👍 Thank you DIY guy 💪🏻💪🏻
Love the mock up building.
😆 thanks.
Thank you I will give it a go
Absolutely informative. Thanks.
Great tutorioal once again, the best how to guides I have found on You Tube, thanks mate
Glad it helped
You explain so clearly.
Thanks a lot
Your videos are so ease to follow keep up the good work thank you
Will do, thanks
Excellent! Absolutely spot on, detailed and easy to follow. I thought I'd be skipping through but, couldn't pull away... 14 minutes of invaluable learning/education.
Keep up the good work matey
Great to hear! Thanks
absolute legend mate! brilliant video
Glad you enjoyed
Excellent explanation. Best video on this subject. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Ceiling Rose acts as junction box. To connect different rooms and the switch and light in the room.
Great video! Thanks for doing this. Could you change the pendant light for a Batton light with the exact same rose and switch system?
thank u so much for ur informative vidios it helped me alot,
Excellent video, so clear and understandable, thank you 🤟🏻
Brilliant. Your explanation is the best. Could you created similar video that show how to connect with double switch when one switch control bottom level and top level and top switch control bottom level and top?
I’m making a list of your videos as like others have said they are very clear and instructive! Thanks .
Glad you like my vids
Great videos and minute details
I understand the concept.. I am looking to get rid of one switch.. my set up is that I have the brown wire going into comm. and the L1 is the black wire.. there are several browns connected together and blues connected together.. can I connect brown and blue to the others and leave the black unconnected and capped?
Love you my bro, you explain things like a legend! 💪❤️ #bestie #grateful #legend
Great videos mate really enjoy learning from them
realy good channel and i have looked at several how tos. i dont have com on the back of my three gang switch. what terminal do i use as com. help
your the best D.I.Y man!!
Haha thanks 🙂
Would I need to do this with bedside lights? So both lights can be turned off from either side?
Excellent presentation!
Thank you kindly!
Hi i am trying to wire lights in my shed. I have been watching loads of your videos and they seem really helpful. For starters i dont know if i have bought the right kit. I have a consumer unit in the shed and run some sockets from it, and run another wire from the 6amp RCB (I think its called) to a switch with two switches on it. I wanted to put one light outside the shed and a strip light on the inside. I was wondering if you could help witha quick demo on how to do it and i can follow alnong like I have been doing previously. By the way I havnt connceted it to the house yet LOL really nervous for doing that until im sure i have done what I can to get it all wired up completely. Again many thanks for your tutorials they are a great help.
I've been watching this 10 times ... Finally, I understood ...I think 😂😂😂
Another great video.
You make electrics seem so easy!
One request...could we have a quick wiring diagram at the end that we could screenshot and refer back to? 😉
Thanks for the feedback :)
Run hot to the pole of one switch, hot from the pole of the second switch to the load. Connect the other side oif the load to neutral. Connect one leg of each switch to one leg of the other. Connect the remaining switch legs. How you route the conductors depends on the conduit or cable routing. If there is power and neutral at the load, you could run a 3-conductor from it to each switch and spice everything at the load.
Hi, great vid. I have this in my living room. I want to add some spot lights to a media unit and have it working off of one of the switches. Can you just replace the switch to a 2 gang switch and bridge a live to have the second switch in the 2 gang switch to operate the spot lights separately whilst leaving everything else working the same as it was?
Just came across your TH-cam channel and your video showing the wiring layout is the same as mine but instead of com at the top it's L1 and L2 and 3 below.
I have the BG electrical evolve single touch dimmer switch and on the back are, a symbol with a wavy line with an arrow through it, s.link and L connections. My question is does the black wire brown sleeve go into wavy line symbol, the grey wire brown sleeve and blue wire into s.link and 2 brown wires into L?
Hi I want to add a toggle on/ off switch to an outdoor wall lantern to use indoors. ? is it possible ?
Thanks bro nice teaching man big up
Any time
Great film, well presented/explained, thank you. 👍👍👍
Thanks very much. Glad it was useful
great video it worked a treat
Do you not need an earth fly lead to connect back to the box as you have a metal face plate?
Love all your uploads mate, very informative for us DIYers 👍🏼
Glad you like the channel!
We live and learn!! Many Thanks
Thanks very much 🙌
Thanks for the video, this makes perfect sense, however I’ve got 2 light switches in my living room that control the centre rose and both switches only have 3 wires 🤔. I can’t remember whether it’s ever worked, but basically you can switch it on with the first switch, then off or on with the second switch. But to use that second switch, the first has to be in the on position! Likewise if the 2nd switch is in its off position, the first won’t work! No wire markings so I don’t know what is what and it’s not so easy to reach the rose and switches with a multimeter. Am baffled.
Brilliantly easy to follow thanks
Glad it helped
you this video very good it help me alot was looking 3 years now this wireing typ
thanks
Brilliant thank you as always
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Brilliant...quick question..... If you are wiring in a 2 way switched section of down lights that are only a part of the main lighting ring in a kitchen ( so no individual cieling rose) do you treat each zone of lights as a separate "room" and run your twin and earth from the consumer board to your first light or does the twin and earth carrying the live terminate at the switches? So in my case I have 6 external downlights in a soffit that will have an external PIR and an internal switch. So do I 3 core and earth from internal switch 1 to PIR and then 2 core and earth from PIR to downlight 1 and then daisy chain the downlights together...and if so does the live feed going from consumer board go to the internal switch or to the first downlight? In the kitchen there will be 5 different lighting zones all independently 2 way switched.....I won't be connecting up..sparky will do that... But I need to run the cables to fit soffit and need to know where the cables need to run. We are still waiting to instruct a sparky as they are all taking an age to get prices together ......thanks.
Made eadier and best you tive video on electrics and light for a monkey to understand. Great explanation thanks
That's brilliant easy to understand.thanks
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