Stupid light wiring question!

[friddela]

I've changed many lights, switches etc. in the past but am completley stumped regarding this one! (and feel stupid for not figuring it out). I've tried many combinations but think I need to take time out before I scream. The light currently works but neither switch does.

I have a room with a Light, Single light switch on wall and a pull cord.

So to replace these I bought:

Light (standard hanging lantern)
Single switch (2 way)
Pull cord switch (2 way)

The following wires are present at each point:

Light:

3 seperate feeds...
Feed 1 : 1 Red and 1 Black wire.
Feed 2 : 1 Red and 1 Black wire.
Feed 3 : 2 Red wires.
+ Earth.


Light switch on wall:
1 Yellow wire, 1 Red wire and 1 Blue wire.

Pull cord:
Believe coming from 3 feeds also but hard to tell (wiring is in a mess).
In total there are 3 Red Wires,
1 Blue Wire,
1 Yellow Wire
and Earth.


Be gentle!

 

[Tesla]

Sounds like standard 2 way switching. Have you googled a wiring diagram?

 

[friddela]

Yeah, can't find a diagram that matches the correct number/colour of cables I have at each point. The diagrams that came with the switches again don't match the combination of wires I have.

 

[HardwareGeek]

At a guess

switch - anything will do... yellow, blue, red - common, L1, L2 etc
Copy this at pullcord but add 1 of the extra reds into L1 and the 2nd extra red into L2

Now at light fitting the 2 red and black feeds are probably live and neutral and the 2 red are probably switch live and perm live going to the pull cord

so 2 blacks into neutral terminal
2 reds (from same cable as blacks) + 1 red into live terminal
1 red into switch live terminal

Try this should work, Otherwise need to get a multimeter out maybe

 

[D3K]

Good luck. I had to deal with this when I rewired my socket:

 

[ZG002]

At a guess

switch - anything will do... yellow, blue, red - common, L1, L2 etc
Copy this at pullcord but add 1 of the extra reds into L1 and the 2nd extra red into L2

Now at light fitting the 2 red and black feeds are probably live and neutral and the 2 red are probably switch live and perm live going to the pull cord

so 2 blacks into neutral terminal
2 reds (from same cable as blacks) + 1 red into live terminal
1 red into switch live terminal

Try this should work, Otherwise need to get a multimeter out maybe

This should be correct.


To the photo above.. That's pretty easy . Actually changed two switches like that today. (Top and bottom of stairs)

 

[friddela]

At a guess

switch - anything will do... yellow, blue, red - common, L1, L2 etc
Copy this at pullcord but add 1 of the extra reds into L1 and the 2nd extra red into L2

Now at light fitting the 2 red and black feeds are probably live and neutral and the 2 red are probably switch live and perm live going to the pull cord

so 2 blacks into neutral terminal
2 reds (from same cable as blacks) + 1 red into live terminal
1 red into switch live terminal

Try this should work, Otherwise need to get a multimeter out maybe

Worked perfectly. Thank you!

Now on to the skirting!