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[scrimshady]

i was putting a strip light up in the garage and stupid me took all the wires out and now dont know how to put them back again, here is what i have and any help would be good.
two switches one at either end, the far one goes into the other switch and the comes back out again to the light, then i have the power cable coming in, where do all the cables go, shall i link the two lives together with a choc block the earth in the earth one of the blacks to the live in the light and the other black to the N
Thanks

[rflight]

You need to try and identify which wire is the switch wire, the rest is straight forward.

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