Kitchen under cabinet light switch.

Dr_888

Just bought a new house and can't find under mount cabinet light switch.
Apparently the kitchen was refitted by the previous owners shortly before selling the house. I am not sure if the wiring been rerouted. Help will be appreciated.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

have you asked previous owners?

DullGreyGuy

You're going to publish your address so people can come round to help?  If not photos of the lights would help

Have you checked the individual lights to see if they have a switch? These may work in isolation or may work in conjunction with one of the room's light switches. So if there are switches on the lights themselves change the position of one and try the light switches. 

Are you sure they are wired to mains and arent batter operated? Cables will normally be fairly obviously, particularly if you unmount one. 

We had similar issue with a non-functional extractor fan. Started to take it apart to replace it when I found the isolation switch was inside the chimley and a wire had become lose from the terminal block connecting the devices own wiring to the wires going into the isolation switch. 

Dr_888

These are some pictures of the washing machine plug before we installed ours. Looks like the lights connected to it

Dr_888

I looked around all light switches and inside all the cabinets. Cant even find a touch button.

CliveOfIndia

I'm not sure it'll be of any help, but in the picture of the light itself, that looks like mains-voltage cable going into it.  But just behind it there's a transformer.  I'm wondering whether there used to be 12-volt lights under there, and they've been replaced with mains-voltage lights?  If that's the case, I'd expect to find a "normal" light-switch somewhere to control them.  If you follow that cable from the light upwards, there's not a switch sitting on top of the cabinet is there?

Dr_888

Thanks.
I followed all the wires, they go behind the wall. no switch, no touch, no motion sensor. 

DullGreyGuy

Is the wire of the light going into that black box?

Is there any identifying manufacturer or model number on it? Any switches etc?

Is there any switch in the kitchen that doesnt seem to do anything?

The black box looks like it could be a receiver for a remote control as our LED lights had something similar and then a credit card type remote for on/off and switch colours in addition to a wall switch. We didnt want flashing colours (which it seemed stuck on) so just removed the remote box from the line and now they are just controlled by the light switch.

Dr_888

Thanks. I will check around again today after work.

subjecttocontract

Might they be touch control lights ? You just touch the metal body of the lamp to switch them on ?

baser999

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

have you asked previous owners?

Got to be the easiest way surely?