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[knownothing]

I was trying to change a light switch in the lounge to a dimmer switch, straight forward I thought but when I removed the cover, there are three red wires, all red, two of them go into common and one into L2. On the dimmer switch, there are two holes but I dont know where any of them go now. Does anyone know why all three wires are red? And, any idea where they go on new switch?
Thanks

[BLAKEY1963]

[quote="knownothing"]I was trying to change a light switch in the lounge to a dimmer switch, straight forward I thought but when I removed the cover, there are three red wires, all red, two of them go into common and one into L2. On the dimmer switch, there are two holes but I dont know where any of them go now. Does anyone know why all three wires are red? And, any idea where they go on new switch?
Thanks[/quote]

KNOWNOTHING
TURN OFF POWER AND THE TWO RED WIRES
TOGETHER COULD BE FEED IN , FEED OUT.
TWO LIVE FEEDS. THESE WOULD GO INTO
COMMON OF DIMMER.
THE SINGLE RED WHICH WAS IN L2 WOULD B YOUR
SWITCH WIRE .
BLAKEY1963

[cb]

i had the same thing happened but they are all brown{ 1 with hoop on it maybe to signal the main one} and the dimmer switche has an arrow with a line thru it an L2 hole, Please advise

[sparx]

hi. Knownothing,
The one with the 'hoop' on it is most likely to be SW live out to light the other 2 are live in/out which go together in C. term.
Cb they are all the same colour because they are all lives!!! some perm. & some switched but all lives so can't be anything but red in old wiring or brown in new, SPARX