2 way light switch problem

[RF Lighting]

Have you added switch 5 and the associated wiring yet?

 

[securespark]

Am I missing something here?

Safely isolate first. At the existing loft switch you want to convert to 2 way, refit the live feed and switch wires into L1 and L2 along with the black and grey from the 3 core that goes to the other switch.

The brown of the 3 core goes to common.

At the new 2 way switch for the loft, connect the other end of the 3 core the same way: brown to common and the other two to their respective terminals.

Doh!

RF beat me to it: moving the red from Common to L1...

Dozy bleeder me!

 

[TheTechGuy]

Yep, got it all sorted now, thanks all. Didn't take me long to realise my error! Doh! All now working as it should. I think where I went wrong is - the wiring layout was simple, I went and made it complicated!

PS. RFLighting, no I haven't added the additional lighting and wiring yet.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I think where I went wrong is - the wiring layout was simple, I went and made it complicated!

I think that where you went wrong was to decide that you could just dive in and do this without taking the trouble to learn how it worked first.

 

[securespark]

got it all sorted now