so in my series of videos on the two plate method that's where we take the feed to the switch
i only ever showed one lighting point and said you could use it for LED down lights because
it reduces the number of cables at the actual lighting point compared to the three plate method
i've been asked the question how would i add more lighting points when you're only showing one Gaz
it's quite simple but still for people that are learning it's not always as simple as for those
with the experience so this was my drawing of the one-way okay so that's my drawing
of the one way two plate method i've then got my extended one where i went on and did
the two plate method two way and again i still only showed one lighting point okay in that system
and said it was ideally suited for led downlights because again we've only got three conductors here
switching line cpc and neutral and we looked at the wiring diagram and then we went on to do
our two way and intermediate switching using the two plate method okay so we had the two plate
method here and again i only showed one lighting point so what we've got here obviously is our led
downlights that we're probably replicating and it's unlikely you'd have one say in a kitchen
so you'd have six eight whatever there is so of course you're gonna need to add multiple lighting
points in so how can you do that Gaz remember this is the connecting area and it could be that the
led down light has a connecting area on it which would be two switching lines two cpcs and two
neutrals as shown here okay so you're bringing it in and going out and doing the next lighting point
the end lighting point would also have one cable in it but all the others possibly got the two in
it and the in and the out okay we also said that that section there could be a joint of some sort
where the cables come into it whether it be like any of the ones that i'm showing you now another
position to make connections so in other words where we can make a connector so let's imagine we
wanted to put another another downlight in circuit so we've got our led downlights and we want more
than one in that kitchen area so we're going to bring another circle with three connecting
points let's bring another circle over here with three connecting points okay so it's a simple case
of just having a one millimetre squared for me twin and cpc cable or twin and earth so we've
got brown blue and a bare conductor which we will identify with green and yellow sleeving
as our cpc so we've got switching line neutral and cpc and it works the same for all three circuits
that we've looked at whether they'd be the one way the two way or the intermediate in this case
so all we're going to do is we're going to bring into this connector here and into this connector
here which is connected to an led light connected to an led light we carry on so we go from here we
bring out our neutral connection we're going to bring out our switching line connection
and we're going to bring out our cpc into the next light point so remembering which way we're
connecting it might be in a joint or it might be in the fit in itself so all we've brought
across here is switching line neutral and cpc and when this circuit is in the on position
the first light will be on and obviously the second light will be on and we just repeat
the process so all we're going to do is introduce another one millimetre squared twin and cpc cable
from this lighting point to this one bring it across our cpc switching line and neutral
into the appropriate connections and repeat the process again so let's do that so we bring across
cpc like so to our next point in the kitchen say we bring across our switching line and
we're going to bring across our neutral into here so again using the appropriate cable remember we
need to identify our cpc with our green and yellow sleeving over the top of it so what
you can see now is that when we're on we're on this light this light and this lighting point
you carry the process on imagine we've gone to six or seven of these first you can see the last
LED downlight only has one cable in it and the remaining ones will have two in
them and that's what they're designed to do so if you look at the connection on the back here
this is designed to take a cable in and the cable out a cable in and the cable out as you repeat the
process in this style of them if you're making your own connections or joints obviously that's
slightly different you have to put your connectors in but that's common what happens now on the back
of an LED light fitting there is the facility to bring in a neutral and out of neutral a cpc in and
out and a switching line in and out in order that you can loop between multiple downlights
it's not ideal to try and bring three into one so if i came from here to here and here to here
that's not ideal for the connections in here you go to one you go to the next one you go around
to the next one and we can have as many as can be designed into the installation so we've often seen
six and eight in kitchens and things like that and this time we've got two way intermediate switching
remember you could have been looking at my one way lighting circuit and this would have been
changed same pro method going on to but then you'd only have a one way switch in order to control it
and we could have been using the two way either yeah it doesn't matter which ones we're looking at
so that's what we would do to add how can we add more lighting points to our
two plate method it's the simple case of coming from the lighting point you've wired a switching
line nutrient cpc and carrying on the process so as always i hope this video has been some help
you