HOW TO FIT A PLUG TOP

Handtools

  Tools required :-  Side cutters (snips), a medium posi and flat screwdriver depending on the plug top, a Stanley knife and if you have them a pair of wire strippers. Remove approximately 5cm of outer sheath from the flex, to do this score around the flex with your knife taking care not to cut into the conductors inside, just bend the flex at the score mark once or twice and it should pull off (fig1).   Prepare the plug top by unscrewing the top and loosening the cable grip inside. Now place the flex where the cable grip will hold it in place and mark the live conductor … [Read more...]

ONE WAY LIGHTING CIRCUIT MODIFIED FOR TWO WAY SWITCHING.

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Here are some helpful diagrams that show how lighting operating on a one way switch can be changed relatively easily for two way switch operation. Turn off the consumer unit and remove the appropriate circuit fuse / miniature circuit breaker first before working on any electrical circuit, once the cable is installed make the connections to the two way switches as shown. Fig 1 and fig 2 show the original switch connected with original (old colours, twin Red and earth) switch-wires and the additional two way switch linked with cable in the new colours, which in the case of three core and … [Read more...]