Bathroom extractor switch

[MJPD29]

You are very clearly not capable of doing thisnwork and should employ an electrician immediately before you cause injury to yourself or someone else

 

[telectrix]

at least OP has taken the flak without throwing his toys out of the pram. credit where due, dudes.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Your fan works by having two lives.
One live is permanently on, the other is switched by the light switch.
You turn on the light, the fan starts.
When you turn off the light, the switched live to the fan is turned off, the permanent live then powers the timer.
If you get the two lives mixed up, the fan wil usually just turn on and off with the light, it will not continue after the light is switched off.
The switch you have got can only switch one live.
You have connected the other live to the earth terminals.

 

[Midwest]

at least OP has taken the flak without throwing his toys out of the pram. credit where due, dudes.

Your only saying that, 'cos of the turmoil (not terminal) you caused with your earthing back box thread.

 

[Ahm]

Your fan works by having two lives.
One live is permanently on, the other is switched by the light switch.
You turn on the light, the fan starts.
When you turn off the light, the switched live to the fan is turned off, the permanent live then powers the timer.
If you get the two lives mixed up, the fan wil usually just turn on and off with the light, it will not continue after the light is switched off.
The switch you have got can only switch one live.
You have connected the other live to the earth terminals.

It made more sense now.....thank you very much.....

 

[Octopus]

so if you had screwed the original switch to the back box (and had the back box been metal) it could have been a big bang!

 

[telectrix]

better a big bang than an electrocuted DIYer (2nd thoughts, DIYers should be shot. .)

 

[Jjc]

That is not a triple-pole isolator, you have connected live conductors to the earth terminals. As the switch is not earthed that is a seriously dangerous situation.

Yeso and the screws will be live

 

[pirate]

Yeso? Here? In the UK? Crikey...Brexit has been overturned!
and by the way Tel, I have been shot many times, but us pirates are made of sterner stuff, even us DIYers!

 

[telectrix]

Yeso? Here? In the UK? Crikey...Brexit has been overturned!
and by the way Tel, I have been shot many times, but us pirates are made of sterner stuff, even us DIYers!

problem there is that pirates should not be shot. it just makes them angry.only solution is to hang them dancing from the nearest yardarm. .