Light switch help needed - Untitled.png (0/1)

[christopher]

I have a 2 button switch in my lounge which I've drawn in the attachment. I believe the central lights are controlled by one button and B 1 WAY and B COM these work. There was another wire sort of loose in the room which I was lead to believe is controlled by the second switch and the other pair A 1 WAY and A COM. I have put a meter on the loose wire and no voltage. I switched the black from A COM to B 2 WAY but still no voltage.

Its now dark and Ive abandoned experimenting untill there is some daylight tommorow.

Can some kind informed person tell me how the swich is supposed to be used/wired.

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in the dark !

[NT]

newsgroups dont carry attachments

NT

[Steve Pearce]

Really?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] saying something like:

You'll have to put up the diagram on flickr or somesuch and provide a link to it. Usenet is a text-only medium.

[David WE Roberts]

Non-binary NGs such as this one do not. :-) Pictures need to be on a web site, and you post the URL. Alternatively use ASCII art.

[David WE Roberts]

As hinted elsewhere Usenet can carry binaries and often does. You can encode binaries as text (e.g. Base64). However a lot of news groups are configured not to carry binaries, including this one.

[Lobster]

Not condoning the posting of a binary here, but I can see the .png file OK

David

[John]

Does a wire bridge from A Com to B Com? (I would expect that)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "David WE Roberts" saying something like:

Thank you, Lord Voldemort.

[Alan]

Many news servers drop binary attachments in text only groups. There is no attachment from the news server i use.

[John Rumm]

yup, same here

[christopher]

Sorry for the mistake I will post something in the morning

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[Phil L]

Some people will see the atachment, others won't - it depends whether their news server is text only or binary, a lot of cheaper (and free) ones only accept text, premium servers obviously accept binaries. try

if you want more people to see it, there's no signup or any other such bollox, just go there, browse for the picture and upload, then post the link here.

[christopher]

Second attempt

I have a 2 button light switch in my lounge which I've drawn below. I believe the ceiling lights are controlled by one button and B 1 WAY and B COM these work OK. There was another wire sort of loose in the room which I was lead to believe is controlled by the second button and the other pair A 1 WAY and A COM. I have put a meter on the loose wire and no voltage. I switched the black from A COM to B 2 WAY but still no voltage.

Its now dark and Ive abandoned experimenting untill there is some daylight tommorow.

Can some kind informed person tell me how the swich is supposed to be used/wired.

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MEM DELTA 5AX 250V

!-----------------------------! ! ! A COM !`O Black 0` ! A 2 WAY ! ` ! ! ` ! B 2 WAY ! 0 Red 0 ! A 1 WAY ! ! ! ! B 1 WAY ! 0 Black Red 0 ! B COM ! ! ! ! !-----------------------------!

[Alan]

In message , Phil L wrote

Most of the ISPs that still support news servers have dropped binary posts completely.

[Phil L]

Virginmedia still have two news servers, but the binary one is so flakey it's not worth using for text groups like this, often there is a 2 hour lag between posting and the post actually appearing in the group. The text one has good retention and is normally pretty well behaved.

[John]

The "COM" terminals need a live - perhaps one wire is live - it needs a bridge wire over to the other "COM"

The "A 1WAY" and the "B 1 WAY" feed the light circuits

[christopher]

Thank you for that, the problem is now solved.

Ive also learnt something about the newsgroupsI. I've been using since DOS

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