Scott, If power is coming in to your switch now, and the doors are on opposite sides of the room, I would wire it power, switch 1, light, switch 2. 14-2 coming in to switch one for power 14-3 to light from switch 1 14-3 from light to switch 2 at switch 1: connect grounds together with a pig tail so you can connect them to the switch connect the white from the power to the black going to the light connect the black from the power to the common screw on the switch (which is the dark colored screw) connect the red and white from the 14-3 to the remaining traveler screws, don't matter which goes where switch 2: connect ground to ground screw on switch. connect the black to the common screw of the switch connect the red and white to the traveler screws. If you want both switches to be the same direction when the light is on or off, connect them the opposite way you did on switch 1. light: connect the reds together. connect the whites together connect the grounds together with a pig tail. connect black from switch to to black on light connect black from switch 1 to white on light. connect ground to light. turn on power and test. If your power is coming to your light fixture first, let me know, and I will give you instructions for that. Let us know how it goes. Michael
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 18:26 To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] hello and 3-way switches Hello all, My name as the e-mail header indicates is Scott Howell. I live in Mount AIry Maryland and have been blind since birth. I have learned a lot of my handyman activities just by figuring out things on my own and with a few questions. Can't say everything I've done was pretty, but I got the job done. I've done lots of plumbing, electrical, and some other repairs like hanging doors and the like. I however have a few projects of the electrical variety and one of those I have to admit I'm not overly sure of. I have a need to install a 3-way switch arrangement. What I have is a bathroom where the fools that built this place put the switch clear on the otherside of the room near a secondary door and not near the main door off the hall. So, my understanding is that I would remove the old switch, I'd need two 3-way switches, and 3 conductor cable with ground so that makes four wires total. Now what I'm not overly clear on is how to rig this up. I understand basic switches to a light fixture in that power comes into the switch and I'm essentually making a loop from the fixture back to the switch. Now, I do know a 3-way switch has one common terminal and two traveler terminals as well as a ground. Now I also understand that I need to rig things up so that when one switch is closed, the other is able to break the circuit. At this point I'm getting fuzzy and not clear how to physically wire this up. Here's what I think and please any advise would be greatfully appreciated. 1. The light fixture is still wired in a loop configuration like it would with a regular switch were there, I would hook the hot wire to the common terminal on the the switch, connect the black wire we'll call it, now I'd hook a white to the traveler, and maybe the other's red can't recall, but that would go to the other traveler, and at the other end of this I'd be hooking up the same wires, black to common, white to another traveler, and red to the other traveler. Of course ground to ground throughout. Now I'm probably wrong on this, but I figure someone here has done this and would have some answers and I'd sure appreciate the help. Now I've been listening to the Blind Handyman show and its just great and a valuable service. Thanks to all in advance. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:s.howell%40verizon.net> net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
