On Switch Wiring Diagram. As a homeowner you will likely need to replace a light switch many times and paying an electrician is not optimal when you can do it in just a few minutes. The cable going to the light switch is connected as follows fig 2.
How to wire a light switch learning how to wire a light switch is one of the basic skills that every homeowner should do. Your lighting circuit must have an earth cable terminating in the switch back box and also at the switch plate if. Line diagram of a one way lighting circuit using in line method fig 1.
The permanent live wire is wired into the switch and the switched live into the switched live terminal.
This diagram illustrates wiring for one switch to control 2 or more lights. Circuit electrical wiring enters the switch box the black wire power in source attaches to one of the switch screw terminals fixture wiring exits the switch box the black wire power out wiring attaches to the other switch screw terminal. Connect the blue wire with the brown slewing coming from the light to the l2 terminal together with the 3 coreearth cable grey wire. Connect the line brown wire coming from the light together with the 3 coreearth cable black wire in to the l1 terminal of the two way switch.