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<blockquote data-quote="sipxstream" data-source="post: 553633" data-attributes="member: 37713"><p>Hi everyone,</p><p></p><p>A (7-day belated) Happy New Year to you all.</p><p></p><p>We recently moved into a new house, and I have a question about how the 2-way light switches in my garage are wired up:</p><p></p><p>The first switch has the permanent live coming in, and the 3-core+CPC cable between the two switches.</p><p></p><p>The second switch receives the other end of the 3-core+CPC, and has a cable to the actual light fitting.</p><p></p><p>My question is why would the person who wired this up not add the cable for the light at the first switch - there's no obstruction or anything (that I can see) to stop a cable going to the light from the first switch? It makes no sense to me, but then again I'm not a sparky, so maybe there's a logical reason that I'm unable to understand just yet?</p><p></p><p>Anyway, all of my lights have the neutral at the switches (2-plate method) if that makes any difference</p><p></p><p>Thanks chaps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sipxstream, post: 553633, member: 37713"] Hi everyone, A (7-day belated) Happy New Year to you all. We recently moved into a new house, and I have a question about how the 2-way light switches in my garage are wired up: The first switch has the permanent live coming in, and the 3-core+CPC cable between the two switches. The second switch receives the other end of the 3-core+CPC, and has a cable to the actual light fitting. My question is why would the person who wired this up not add the cable for the light at the first switch - there's no obstruction or anything (that I can see) to stop a cable going to the light from the first switch? It makes no sense to me, but then again I'm not a sparky, so maybe there's a logical reason that I'm unable to understand just yet? Anyway, all of my lights have the neutral at the switches (2-plate method) if that makes any difference Thanks chaps. [/QUOTE]
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