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[lawrencebentley]

we have just bought three lights for our bathroom and a new pullswitch after realising the lighting allready intstalled was a botched job i was wondering how do I wire the three lights to the one pull cord i have Live neutral and live wired in to the switch (earth is not used, live is in the load and neutral is in theonly other connection) how to i connect these to all three switches with out blowing a fuse,?

[stanley]

i assume when you said you have a live neutrel this should of been id sleeved as a switch wire, my immediate thought would be to then strap your first light across to the other two , the 3 lights would come on with the pull cord

[thedoctor]

See the electrical projects in the projects section of the webiste Lawrence, there is one about replacing a light fitting which will show you how to do this and also show you why one of the switch wires is black but is also live.

[thedoctor]

MANY OF THE ANSWERS TO YOUR POSTS CAN BE FOUND, WITH DIAGRAMS, IN THE DIYDOCTOR PROJECTS SECTION. CLICK HERE www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects.htm