Wall Light's

[R0b]

Hello I have recently moved in to a new house and have moved on to the hall where i need to tackle my 1st electric job!!! There is 2 wall mounted lights in the hall with a plug coming out the wall at the bottom to plug in and power them, I want to do the job properly. at the moment there is a double light switch (1 for the hall light and 1 for the landing light) for the landing light switch there is a red,blue and a yellow wire for the hall light there is 2 x red wire's. There is also a wall socket with 2xRed and 2xBlack wires, am i able to use any of this to pull power from to the light's and switch? if so please let me know. Thank's Rob

 

[breezer]

no

 

[R0b]

Mr Breezer, Why not ? and have you got a way i can do it ?

 

[Taylortwocities]

To power a light you will need live and neutral connections. The light switch only has live connections and no neutral.

That's why he says you cant do what you are thinking of doing in the way that you want to do it.

 

[breezer]

ROb

taylorwocities is right, i was in a rush at the time.

see the sticky section or the wiki of this forum to see how it is done, and therefore why you cant do it from the switch.

look at 2 way switching, its your switch.

now you know why the previous owners put a plug on it

 

[securespark]

Hang on. He says there is a "double light switch" and "there is also a wall socket".

If this nomenclature is correct, then he could have a socket switched from the 2G switch.....

Pictures, please!!

 

[breezer]

we know there is a wall socket, its where the previous people plugged the light into.

the op seems to be asking can he feed it from the existing light switch. to which the answer is no

even fitting an fcu from the socket you would still need a separte switch

 

[R0b]

Right so the switch is a no go, but i could do it from the plug socket? and add a 3rd switch next to the other 2 switches?

 

[breezer]

yes.
but you have to install an FCU to the socket and the new switch must be nothing to do with the current switch, other than next to it.

you could even fit a switched FCU

 

[ban-all-sheds]

You could, but you'd be better off doing it properly and putting them on the lighting circuit.

As Breezer said, look at the For Reference and Wiki on how lighting circuits work. Also get some of the books listed here: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=75416#75416

And this guy has some useful reference material on his site:

http://www.kevinboone.com/electricity.html

http://www.kevinboone.com/domesticinstallations.html

http://www.kevinboone.com/cableselection_web.html

 

[R0b]

Mr Breezer Thank you very much for your help. Now to see how it goes