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Replacing Dimmer Switch

  • 25-11-2020 02:49PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I'm looking for a bit of advice on replacing an old dimmer switch but I'm a bit unsure of the wiring on it.
    Its a double one way dimmer switch.
    One knob is for the main lighting and the other is for 2 small lights on the wall.
    One knob is physically broken, keeps turning but the other knob functions.
    This is what the original wiring looks like, there is some kind of a looping wire.

    Old-Switch.jpg


    I connected a new standard switch (Non Dimmer) and wired it like below.
    I connected the red wires to Com (Live) and the grey to L1.

    New-Switch.jpg

    Only the main lights came on with this configuration and I later discovered that 2 lights in 2 different rooms no longer worked.

    I've rewired the old switch back up and the problem with the 2 lights in the other rooms has been resolved and the good knob works as previously.

    Anyone know how I should wire the new switch, do I need to loop the red wires as previously ?
    Many thanks


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭Pasteur.


    Yes loop the reds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭aido79


    Zardoz wrote: »
    Hi,
    I'm looking for a bit of advice on replacing an old dimmer switch but I'm a bit unsure of the wiring on it.
    Its a double one way dimmer switch.
    One knob is for the main lighting and the other is for 2 small lights on the wall.
    One knob is physically broken, keeps turning but the other knob functions.
    This is what the original wiring looks like, there is some kind of a looping wire.

    Old-Switch.jpg


    I connected a new standard switch (Non Dimmer) and wired it like below.
    I connected the red wires to Com (Live) and the grey to L1.

    New-Switch.jpg

    Only the main lights came on with this configuration and I later discovered that 2 lights in 2 different rooms no longer worked.

    I've rewired the old switch back up and the problem with the 2 lights in the other rooms has been resolved and the good knob works as previously.

    Anyone know how I should wire the new switch, do I need to loop the red wires as previously ?
    Many thanks

    Yes loop the reds. One of the reds is the feed from the board to the switch and the other feeds the switch in the other room. The other 2 wires are the switch wires to the lights.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    Cheers guys, I looped the reds as ye said and everything is working perfectly.
    Many thanks ;)


  • Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Zardoz wrote: »
    Cheers guys, I looped the reds as ye said and everything is working perfectly.
    Many thanks ;)

    Good to see someone getting help here instead of the usual abuse.


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