in this video we're going to look at extending our lighting circuit so we can have another
light come on when this one comes on so it's traditionally wired three plate method
and we've seen in two previous videos first of all how to make the connections in here
and neatly do them and then we went on to work out how we could come from here with another feed
a line a neutron CPC to another area to why i say an outside light a loft light or another room but
this time i want to see if we can take a cable from here that actually turns on another light
in the same area so we've got two lights coming on at the same time when the switch is operated
i've installed my cable into the lighting point here and as we've seen before we've just got to
confirm we got our conductors around the right way to make it easier for ourselves
we've got a blue one brown one and our center bare CPC but now we're going to think right so this is
now going to take a switching line a neutral and a CPC to the other light in the area that wants to
come on when this one comes on so this time the blue is going to be a neutral whereas before we
did see that when we had the switching line one here actually that it was not a neutral it was
identified with brown so even as a switching line conductor so this time it's going to be
the brown one that's the switching line the blue one that's the neutral and the bare one as always
is going to be our circuit protective conductor so let's strip them back once we've confirmed
we've got it in the right place so that's the neutral neutrals this side what did we do before
we pulled it out slightly we twist it round and we send it back in and you can see now we've got
our neutral connection on the correct side and our brown one which is not going to be permanent line
this time as it was in the last video it's going to be our switching line conductor so
i'm getting used to using these now let's bring in my twin and earth or twin ans CPC strippers
and pull off and push that in so this this light will come on and then the new light where this
other cable was going to end up is going to come on at the same time so that means we need to take
a neutral across the new light fitting and we need to bring down a switching line as well
we saw in previous videos i didn't use the outside connections here this would be where the flex
would be connected say for our ceiling rose and pendant or for our batten lamp holders and i don't
recommend you take it out because it gives you another job every time to reconnect it but i've
taken ours out in order to make it easy for you to see what we're doing so this other light will
need a neutral we'll need a CPC and we'll need a switching line as we said in the previous video it
doesn't matter if we put more than one conductor into any of these holes but i'm going to try and
leave the outside ones for that flexible cable so let's insert our neutral so we're going to bring
our neutral in i want it to dress neatly like the other ones i'm going to bring it around to there
and this will take a neutral across to our next point we've got our strippers again maybe that's
a fraction too much copper and we said then we're in our last video just to check that there's no
damage to the conductors that are in here so once you pull them out they'll be squashed slightly
just pull that neutral out and back and just have a little look and see how fractured it is
because if we screw into it again you might find you snap it call yourself a little bit of a fault
if you're happy with that we can insert our next conductor by the side of it
so we end up having two neutrals in the same hole which is not a problem
and then we tighten those back up so that's got a neutral connection to the light that's going
to come on the same time as this one here we go let's do our CPC next i've left one of the
holes so we've got plenty of room to put our CPC's in bringing our green and yellow sleeving
put that around green and yellow make sure it's a yellow right i've said it yellow in
one of the videos everybody pointed that one out so i apologize for that
CPC connection it's not a live connection it doesn't matter if it pokes through slightly
make my connection for my CPC and then this brown one will go with the blue one
with brown sleeving on because it's sharing a switching line connection in order that these
two come on together so i'm gonna strip that one back so you might use a different tool
here's my five and ones so we can go into that hole there not quite enough so i'm going to do a
little bit further shows you see how precise i can be with these yep in order to expose my copper and
we're going in there to share our switching line connection so again you might just want
to check it check it for fracture see how bad it is it looks right to me just a little slight
squash in it and then we pop our cable in so we share our switching line connection
that's in position and we tighten those up
and there we go we've dressed it and it still looks reasonably neat even though we've got an
extra cable in it so we've got a neutral going off to the light in the same area same in the living
area we've got a switching line going off into the same area so when this one comes on it also
brings on the other light now that you've wired in the area and to make it nice and safe we've
inserted our circuit protective conductor in here in the next video in this series i'm going to show
you how you can add a slightly different cable do the same thing we've done here take another
cable so another light in the area can come on but also so you can carry on the three plate method