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So, nearly all the light switches (all white plastic, no metal) that I've connected myself have all been one-gang switches with one length of t&e 1.5 cable going to them via a plastic dry lining pattress box from the light fitting. Line/brown wire to COM, blue switched live with brown tape to L1 and then the earth sleeved with green and yellow sheathing, terminated in the box using an In-Line Push-In wire connector.
My electrician came over to connect three complicated (for me) switches.
The first switch was downstairs: a 2-gang switch with one gang (if that's the right way to say it?) turning on/off the downstairs hall light, whilst the other gang on this switch turned on/off three lights, which were daisy chained together around the upstairs hallway.
The second switch is upstairs; a two-gang switch with the first gang controlling the same set of three daisy-chained lights and the other gang turning the bathroom light on/off.
The final switch again controls the three daisy-chained lights and the second gang controls the light in my little boys room.
When my electrician got here, I'd temporarily connected 2 switches:
a 2-gang switch with one gang controlling the bathroom light and one gang controlling one of the hall lights in my usual way, basically treating the switch as if it were two separate light switches, if that makes sense? So terminating the two earths in separate push-In connectors. (This was just while we waited for the electrician come to us - I knew he'd be changing the light switches to "pole" something or others).
With the second temporary switch, I did the same thing using a 2-gang switch to control one hall light and my little boys light.
Where my electrician threw me was when he said that instead of using the Push-In connectors, I should be using wagos and connecting all the earths together to form a continuous earth.
I should have questioned him at the time but I was in the middle of something else and couldn't break away to pick his brains, unfortunately. So now I'm just confused.
With a 2-gang switch this is doable because you have two cables coming in but you obviously only have one cable usually going into a 1-gang, one-way switch. So does this rule only apply with 2-gang switches? With 1-gang switches -with one t&e cable going into them in combination with plastic pattress boxes with no earth terminal connection - how would I connect the earth to another earth in this situation to keep the earth connection continuous? Or do I not need to? I'm baffled!! Please can someone explain what's what to me?
So, nearly all the light switches (all white plastic, no metal) that I've connected myself have all been one-gang switches with one length of t&e 1.5 cable going to them via a plastic dry lining pattress box from the light fitting. Line/brown wire to COM, blue switched live with brown tape to L1 and then the earth sleeved with green and yellow sheathing, terminated in the box using an In-Line Push-In wire connector.
My electrician came over to connect three complicated (for me) switches.
The first switch was downstairs: a 2-gang switch with one gang (if that's the right way to say it?) turning on/off the downstairs hall light, whilst the other gang on this switch turned on/off three lights, which were daisy chained together around the upstairs hallway.
The second switch is upstairs; a two-gang switch with the first gang controlling the same set of three daisy-chained lights and the other gang turning the bathroom light on/off.
The final switch again controls the three daisy-chained lights and the second gang controls the light in my little boys room.
When my electrician got here, I'd temporarily connected 2 switches:
a 2-gang switch with one gang controlling the bathroom light and one gang controlling one of the hall lights in my usual way, basically treating the switch as if it were two separate light switches, if that makes sense? So terminating the two earths in separate push-In connectors. (This was just while we waited for the electrician come to us - I knew he'd be changing the light switches to "pole" something or others).
With the second temporary switch, I did the same thing using a 2-gang switch to control one hall light and my little boys light.
Where my electrician threw me was when he said that instead of using the Push-In connectors, I should be using wagos and connecting all the earths together to form a continuous earth.
I should have questioned him at the time but I was in the middle of something else and couldn't break away to pick his brains, unfortunately. So now I'm just confused.
With a 2-gang switch this is doable because you have two cables coming in but you obviously only have one cable usually going into a 1-gang, one-way switch. So does this rule only apply with 2-gang switches? With 1-gang switches -with one t&e cable going into them in combination with plastic pattress boxes with no earth terminal connection - how would I connect the earth to another earth in this situation to keep the earth connection continuous? Or do I not need to? I'm baffled!! Please can someone explain what's what to me?