bathroom pull cord light switch doesn't work.

Apollian

So, last night my Pull Cord switch got stuck and the light remained on all night.
so I went out today to Wickets and brought a replacement Pull Cord.
I unconnected the old switch and replaced with new, putting the L2 (Red) and L1 (black) in the correct places as normal. the earth was screwed into the fitted box.... so, no light????.
went back to Wickets and told them their unit was faulty, and installed a new one, still nothing? .
I checked the bulbs to see if they had blown, and they still work fine.
so now I'm stuck, I have no idea why this new Pull Cord isn't working?. .

Apollian

one thing that I thought was to change the Earth which is inside the fitted box, to the actual unit next to the L1 and L2 connections, but that shouldn't make a difference right?.
they are all normally the same, 6amp 2 way switched are pretty much the norm.

Le_Kirk

If your old switch was one-way and you have bought and are trying to fit a two-way, you need to connect the wires to Common and L1 assuming you have Common, L1 & L2. If your old switch was two-way there should be three wires. The earth should only be connected to an earth point.

Apollian

old switch was 2 way and 6amps, just like the replacement I brought.
the only thing I could try as I said above is to take the Earth which is connected to the casing, and connect it to the L1/L2 module and see if that works.
I may even try to buy a another unit at Screw fix, something tells me that this Wickets one just isn't any good.

Hasbeen

Apollian wrote: »

So, last night my Pull Cord switch got stuck and the light remained on all night.
so I went out today to Wickets and brought a replacement Pull Cord.
I unconnected the old switch and replaced with new, putting the L2 (Red) and L1 (black) in the correct places as normal. the earth was screwed into the fitted box.... so, no light????.
went back to Wickets and told them their unit was faulty, and installed a new one, still nothing? .
I checked the bulbs to see if they had blown, and they still work fine.
so now I'm stuck, I have no idea why this new Pull Cord isn't working?. .

No.
One wire to COM and other to L1

Do not put earth into any of these! it goes to dedicated earth point on box!

Apollian

COM?....... please explain.
that's no how the previous connection was, all I have done is copied how is was wired before.
as I said, Black goes to L1 and Red goes to L2....

Apollian

Thanks tried that and it worked.

MoneyMate

Make sure the wiring is to COM and other to L1
with earth wire to the separate connection marked Earth, checking all connections are connected to the bare wire. not the insulation

[Deleted User]

Hi,

I'm confused,

so you bought a new switch, the same as your old switch, and wired it the same as your old switch?

It didn't work, so you took it back as faulty, wired up the replacement switch which still didn't work, 'something tells me that this Wickets one just isn't any good.' and you were about to try ScrewFix.

Then you took Hasbeen's advice, and

Apollian wrote: »

Thanks tried that and it worked.

So, where did you go wrong, will you go back to Wickets and explain.

Biggles

[Deleted User] wrote:

So, where did you go wrong, will you go back to Wickets and explain.

I'm stumped!

phil24_7

Why on earth would they go back to a shop and explain? I doubt Wickes employees give a stuff!