Lighting circuit problem?
I recently began to change a 2 gang 2 way switch, it serves the lights in the hall way that can be switched on/off at either end of the hall, and also and outside light that can be switched on/off from the inside or the garage, the old MK switch has 8 posible connection points the new one only has six (L1,L2,L3) there are 6 wires, 2 black and 4 red the earth connects directly to the back plate (unsheathed) on the original switch to of the connections are used at the top of the switch and all 4 at the bottom of the switch, when I disconnected the socket I identified that 1 black and one red are not live, 3 red and 1 black are live. My house is circa 1960's - so does not have the update todate wire colourings. Please can somebody help with this connundrum?
Lewie, October 2008