Thanks for your help guys - I've sorted it. When I followed advice and checked at the connection into the Consumer Unit I discovered that the black cable was neutral and the blue cable wasn't connected to anything at all. So its a normal configuration of RED (L) BLACK (N) and GREEN/YELL (E). Thanks ...
Hi Chappers, thanks for your interest. It is just a mains socket switch, no two way lighting circuits involved. I expected the wires coming into the garden would be the usual 3 wires but there are four as previously indicated.
Thanks guys. As I live in Scotland there is no part P but the outdoor cable was installed by an electrician. I am just trying to move it across to a new switch which is the same as the old one but unfortunately did not take enough notice of how it was wired when I dismantled the old one. From the se...
I am connecting an outdoor electrical cable to a switch. The existing cable that goes out into the garden has 4 wires - red (live I assume), green&yellow (earth I assume), black and blue. How do I connect these to a switch with 3 connectors for live, neutral and earth ?
