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Which end of earth to use?

  • 26-09-2019 12:25PM
    #1
    Hardtochoose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Swapping out a white plastic light switch with a metal one. The earth cable has one end looped around the neutral sheathing and one end connected to a block. Which part of the earth should I use to connect to the new metal switch?
    See photo attached
    Thanks

    https://ibb.co/b1y62gP


Comments

  • #2
    johnnyfruitcake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭johnnyfruitcake


    That's the earth from each incoming cable twisted together, remove it from the connector and use it to earth the switch.


  • #3
    meercat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,922 ✭✭✭meercat


    johnnyfruitcake wrote: »
    That's the earth from each incoming cable twisted together, remove it from the connector and use it to earth the switch.

    Or alternatively, connect a new piece of earth wire into earth connector block and connect to switch. This may make it easier to terminate into switch plate.


  • #4
    Risteard81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    Really those cpcs should be independently sleeved, rather than twisted together and covered by one bit of sleeving.


  • #5
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,370 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    All earth ends twisted like that into a single sleeve is a cowboy job in my opinion. No thought of the possibility of needing to separate them at some stage.


  • #6
    Hardtochoose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭Hardtochoose


    Bruthal wrote: »
    All earth ends twisted like that into a single sleeve is a cowboy job in my opinion. No thought of the possibility of needing to separate them at some stage.

    That doesn’t surprise me at all, new build house (2 years old). A lot of the work is shoddy, redoing it all bit by bit.


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  • #7
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,370 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Hardtochoose wrote: »
    That doesn’t surprise me at all, new build house (2 years old). A lot of the work is shoddy, redoing it all bit by bit.

    Well whe I say cowboy job, it's more that I find it very annoying trying to separate them which happens sometimes. Most I've seen twist them all into one. I prefer individual sleeved.


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