switch where we had the two plate method wired within the ceiling rose and we took the feed
to the switch and then obviously the switching line neutral and CPC back to the lighting point
and we future-proofed it we future-proofed it by removing the twin and CPC which historically goes
from the switch to the lighting point and we replaced it with a three core and CPC
so when we were at the light we actually could get a permanent line connection
meaning that in this system if somebody unscrewed it i wanted to extend a circuit
saying to a roof space or maybe they've had a dining room added to the building they went to
that lighting point and wanted to take the line neutral CPC to continue the lighting circuit on
they can now because obviously that three core brings that permanent line connection in
if you haven't checked out that video i'll leave it in the eye above my head so you can see what
we did to get to this stage the question that came up though was could we use that switch Gary
they've used in other videos which means that we can locate the neutral not inside the Wago 221
connector but actually on the back of the switch this switch we've used a few times on the channel
it's got the the one way and two way connections if you want to make it a two way switch
along with the common so if you use common and the one way it becomes a one way switch
but it's got this other mystery terminal which is called loop and we've discussed previously
how we think that's probably poorly worded this is a terminal that isn't physically connected to any
of the other terminals in the switch so we can use this for our connections for our neutral so
i was asked can i swap this switch over with this method in order that you use the one i've used in
a previous video well the answer is obviously yes so what we're going to have to do we're
going to have to just have all work out what we've got here we've got two cables into common because
that is our permanent line in on our twin and cpc as well as our three core which now takes the line
up to the light point that wasn't there previously at the start of the video that i made before this
we've got a black switching line conductor out of L1 and we've got our two neutrals inside of
our Wago connector which we want to get rid of now and our CPC's are connected into the back of the
box which is fully insulated and they're there in case we ever change it over for a metallic switch
which is an exposed conductive part so i was asked how am i going to make those connections well
let's start off by doing the neutrals they're the ones we want to get rid of so we pull our
neutrals out the way they're not doubled over at the moment so i will double those over in order
to go into that switch you'll notice i'm not using a knife i use a knife a lot when i was at college
i left cottage some years ago so i can use some better kit now but if you're still using a knife
it's still fine just be careful not to fracture the copper so i'm going to double these ones over
so they can go into that loop terminal of that switch it's a switch made by Schneider electric
they also make a Hager version of the same switch that has that additional terminal in it
so you can put some connections in and those connections be in the neutral they're not actually
connected to the switch because it would go bang they are there for connecting things such as our
neutrals so we'll put our neutral connection in there i'm just going to tighten that one
up so they go into that loop terminal so what else have we got then so we've got our neutrals got rid
of that's the connector gone we've now got to work out what's next CPC's are staying where they are
so let's start next with the switching line which is our black conductor so take out our switching
line conductor we transfer that across we can use a two-way switch as a one-way switch and that's
what we will be doing here so we've got common and i'm looking for one way isn't marked as L1
this time it's marked as a one way so that makes it nice and easy for us to put that connection in
there so that's the switching line connection so that's the black one now of this three core
remember to check out that previous video if you're all a little bit lost at this stage
i'm trying to leave it in the eye above my head at some point during this video so there we go
that's our switching line and then we've got our two line connections line in and line out so we're
going to bring that one out and that's going to go in the common of this Schneider switch
so take those two out and they're going to go into the common and all it means now is we've
got rid of that Wago 221 some people don't like connector blocks floating around in the back
of light switches and these switches are ideal for it so there we go let's have a look at what
we've done here so we've got our line in and our line up to our light fitting to future-proof it
we've got our switching line so we have control over it when we operate the switch we turn it
switching line on here and we've removed our Wago 221 and we've made our neutral connections in this
loop terminal which is quite unique to this switch but Hager also make one as well that has a blank
terminal which you can use for your neutrals so what we've got then is as we look at a light
fitting we've got a permanent line which comes from our common of our three core so we've future
proofed our light for him we've got our switching line so we have control over our light fitting
remember we would normally have the two flexes on the outside for switching line and neutral
we've got our grey neutral here which is now in this loop terminal with a neutral that fed the
switch this is using the two plate method from the previous video where the feed goes into the switch
and from the switch we go to the light point and we've got our connections for our CPC
so yeah if you wanted to get rid of the Wago 221 and you were more comfortable with this kind
of switch you can obviously use the loop section for the neutral i think this is future proof both
ends so if you wanted a smart switch down here you've got a neutral often smart switches need
neutrals and that was the premise of the first video before this one and then we future proof
the lighting point because we've got a permanent line neutral and switching line and CPC so if we
wanted to take a feed into the other room we take the line neutral and CPC to the next location
and we can select to use either the two plate method of wiring lights or the three plate method
and we've looked at those both very extensively on the channel so that just answers that question can
i use the switch then the Schneider switch that i've used before that has a neutral connection
in order to future proof it and the answer is yes but as always I hope this video has been some help