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Title: Electrical Switch
Post by Tufti on Sep 8^th, 2014, 12:58pm

Hello Mr Electrician.

I am looking for an electrical switch where I can have one 'live' wire coming in which will allow me to have 3 live wires coming out the other end - does such a switch exist and if so does it have a special name and can it be bought at an electrical shop? :)

Title: Re: Electrical Switch
Post by Lectrician on Sep 8^th, 2014, 6:39pm

Three independently switched outputs?

Title: Re: Electrical Switch
Post by big_all on Sep 8^th, 2014, 10:23pm

if you are looking at a normal switch connected to a light if it only has 2 wires what you have is the live and switched live [that should be sleeved in red]going back to the light so you would need a neutral wire to each new light
of course if its a 2 or 3 way switch it will have further wires but probably no neutral

Title: Re: Electrical Switch
Post by CWatters on Sep 9^th, 2014, 7:39am

You might be able to get a three position grid switch but these are usually L1 - OFF - L2. Perhaps check if this one is L1-L2-L3....

http://www.reconelectrical.co.uk/click-mini-grid-modules-10a-3-position-white-switch.html

But is a three position switch really what you need?

Does it need to look like a regular white light switch?