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Help with wiring for dual dimmer switch
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<blockquote data-quote="Ardet R" data-source="post: 464607" data-attributes="member: 30040"><p>I would not say it is safe to randomly plug wires into terminals.</p><p></p><p>It would be best to test to ensure you know which cables are doing what before connecting them.</p><p></p><p>If there is still a fault on the lighting circuit then this would need to be found and rectified before attempting to apply power back to the circuit.</p><p></p><p>Normally (or at least quite often) you would have a single live supply coming in and the switched lives coming out for each set of lights, however with two light switches and an extension and not knowing if there is two way switching it is not possible to say how it has been wired originally.</p><p></p><p>If all the cables to the switch are brown then there is no way by just looking at them to tell which is which.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ardet R, post: 464607, member: 30040"] I would not say it is safe to randomly plug wires into terminals. It would be best to test to ensure you know which cables are doing what before connecting them. If there is still a fault on the lighting circuit then this would need to be found and rectified before attempting to apply power back to the circuit. Normally (or at least quite often) you would have a single live supply coming in and the switched lives coming out for each set of lights, however with two light switches and an extension and not knowing if there is two way switching it is not possible to say how it has been wired originally. If all the cables to the switch are brown then there is no way by just looking at them to tell which is which. [/QUOTE]
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