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[aries1950]

Hi

I am in the process of updating my home, in my hall I have 3 way lighting and I want to remove the middle switch, the wire colours are: two yellow,two blue and three red which are together in a connector block, any help would be welcome thanks

[ericmark]

The three red seem odd, normally there would only be two. As a result I may be wrong in your case. But normally you would connect yellow to yellow and blue to blue. When removing any electrical item either you most leave something like a blanking plate to show where it was or remove completely. There are "Permitted Zones" for wiring once you remove the ID to show where it ran it is no longer a permitted zone.

[aries1950]

hi ericmark
thank you very much for the information, on closer inspection there is only 2 red! my mistake
(':oops:')
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