Pull switch removal

[sparkwright]

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[sparkwright]

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[Nik0967]

Taylortwocities can you tell me why am I doing what you suggest, What am I looking for?

And what wires are we talking about, the ones at the switch on the wall or the one on the pull switch?


Thanks
Nik

 

[Taylortwocities]

It seems like a very long time ago but you originally said

I want to remove a pull light switch from my spare room.

I am talking about the wiring in the pull switch. Try that and see if that eliminates the pull switch.

 

[Nik0967]

Thanks I will give your suggestion a go. when you say insulated terminal block I take it you mean one of these in my pic?

Nik

 

[Taylortwocities]

Yup

 

[Nik0967]

Thanks will give it a go tomorrow and let you know.

Nik

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Electricity by guesswork.

Someone clueless blindly following instructions to put-this-wire-in-that-hole without the faintest idea why.

Just how morally bankrupt are you all?

 

[JohnW2]

Electricity by guesswork. Someone clueless blindly following instructions to put-this-wire-in-that-hole without the faintest idea why.

.... I presumke that you don't really actually know for sure whether or not it has got anything to do with the lights/switches in either of the rooms - it might possibly have been for something totally different! I therefore suspect that we are going to struggle to give you much advice 'at a distance'.

Not impossible. The problems is obviously that none of us can do anything other than speculate. As I've said, we do not even know for certain that the pull switch has got anything to do with the lighting! It wouldn't take most of us very long on site with a meter to work out what is going on - but, 'at a distance' .... !!

It's probably a 2-way switching system, it may be "in full working order", the unused pull switch may be related to the wall switch in the same room and there may (or may not) be JBs somewhere in the equation - but there is a lot of uncertainty there! .... without turning all those uncertainties into certainties, I would suggest that we can't really advise him, at a distance, what to do.

...However, even if your test confirms that the pull swith is a functioing 'two-way-parner' of the wall switch in the room, I'm a little uncertain/concerned as what we are then going to advise the OP to do.

Kind Regards, John

 

[Nik0967]

Ban all sheds
where you referring to me with your comment "Someone clueless blindly following instructions to put-this-wire-in-that-hole without the faintest idea"

 

[Nik0967]

Taylortwocities

I did as you suggested with the pull switch off and the wires in the combination in the isolating blocks. and the lights work normally as in the same as when the pull switch is attached.

 

[JohnW2]

I did as you suggested with the pull switch off and the wires in the combination in the isolating blocks. and the lights work normally as in the same as when the pull switch is attached.

In that case, have you tried, as TTC suggested, tried swapping the two reds in the connector block and then seeing what happens? You may well then find that the wall switch works 'upside down'.

Kind Regards, John

 

[Nik0967]

JohnW2

I just swapped the red over and put it with the black and the light does not come on at all in this combination.

 

[JohnW2]

JohnW2 I just swapped the red over and put it with the black and the light does not come on at all in this combination.

I'm a little confused. Did you intially do what TTC has suggested, namely "Connect the black to one of the reds in the terminal block ... Put the other red in a separate bit of terminal block" (i.e. with one of the reds connected to the black)? If so, what I (TTC) was suggesting is that you swapped the reds, so that the other red was now connected to the black (and the one which was originally connected to the black left in the connector block 'on its own'). Is that what you have done?

Kind Regards, John

 

[Nik0967]

That's what I have done yes.