Wiring delima. I enclosed a wiring diagram of everything. Can you put it together. Thanks.
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on
December 21st, 2008
So I had to pull the wiring apart to get the old cabinet put that it was run through when I remodeled my kitchen. Well I had it all written down before I took it apart. That was 6 months ago. I had surgery in the mean time and spent a couple months in the hospital. It’s been to long to remember how it went and my roommate accidently threw the diagram away.
I know it’s a very childish drawing but it’s the best I can do.
The two switches are side by side in the kitchen. One is for the laundry room light and one is for the kitchen light. I think both switches were 3 ways. But I can’t remember for sure.
Can someone connect the dots.
Thanks so much. I really really need this. We are over budget and cant afford an electrician. I have a fair amount of wiring expierance but nothing this weird. Just standard stuff. Thanks.
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p30/TwoKSiR/scan0001.jpg
I got it figured out. It was non of the below. The black on #2 is the wire that gets split off to both switches. The white didn’t get used. And on the #1 the white went to the laundry room switch and the black went to the kitchen switch.
Easy .
E. F. Hutton says:
I can’t make anything out from your drawing, sorry.
3-way switches, that would mean you have two switches that operate one fixture. There are a few different ways to wire them. Without getting good details on your system I can’t tell you how it goes. However perhaps this will give you some insight:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-way_switch#Multiway_switching
Now if you have single throw switches, one switch for one fixture things are different. There’s a couple of ways that can be done. The circuit can lead to the switch box and then to the fixture or to the fixture first with wires that lead through the switch and back. The latter method is found frequently where all the light on a floor are on one circuit for example.
December 21st, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Eye_Mac says:
A light that has 2 switches that control it uses 3-way switches.
3-way switch
V ground wire to light V
_________________________
___._______________.______O
\______________/
switch ^lines switch light
between
switches
single switch
V ground to light V
________________________
____.____________________O
switch line to light light
What you are describing are single switches. Check both wires connected to the switch, if neither has power than you have a broken line somewhere OR they ran a line with power direct to the light (not right but idiots do amazing things). check both wires at each light for power (with the switch disconnected from the circuit) There should be no power but if there is they wired it wrong.
December 21st, 2008 at 9:33 pm