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Fitting A Smart Wifi 3 Gang Lightswith
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Hi, Has anyone on here swapped their tradition light switch for a wifi controlled one instead?
I am contemplating swapping my manual light switch for a wifi controlled one, it is a 3 gang switch which I am thinking of replacing, the wiring diagram shows that it must have a neutral going to it. My current switch has a live and a switched live plus an earth wire. I can run a neutral from one of the junction boxes in the loft feeding one of the lights, would this suffice? Then all 3 permanent lives in one terminal and the other 3 switched lives in their allocated terminals? Is this correct? Or would all 3 cables feeding the switch have to have a neutral?
Hope the above makes sense.
Cheers in advance.
I am contemplating swapping my manual light switch for a wifi controlled one, it is a 3 gang switch which I am thinking of replacing, the wiring diagram shows that it must have a neutral going to it. My current switch has a live and a switched live plus an earth wire. I can run a neutral from one of the junction boxes in the loft feeding one of the lights, would this suffice? Then all 3 permanent lives in one terminal and the other 3 switched lives in their allocated terminals? Is this correct? Or would all 3 cables feeding the switch have to have a neutral?
Hope the above makes sense.
Cheers in advance.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The Builder is absolutely right (he always is). It won't apply to you because you're going to take the neutral from the lighting circuit; if you took the neutral from the ring-main I think it would still work UNTIL YOU SWITCHED OFF THE RING-MAIN CIRCUIT (or the breaker tripped). At that point you would lose the neutral and the wifi switch wouldn't work.
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