Yes there is. You mentioned two light switches. Are they in the same room or hall? Have you opened up the box to see how many wires are on it? Actual number of terminals, not just number of wires. It might be possible if they are in the same room they are a couple of three ways going to a outlet or even just half of a outlet in that room. Forgetting that possibility 3M and others make a circuit tracer you would hook to a live wire and ground and you could pick up the signal at the breaker box. that would not exactly answer question I feel. So you pull out what we called the majic wand. Technically it is a signal tracer. Very similiar to what the telephone and other utilities use to trace underground utility lines. You hook up one end. With ours we could just clamp around a wire. Dead or alive and trace that signal with a pickup tool wherever that signal went. Both tools are a little expensive for a one time shot. Real good equipped electricians should have them. No not all of them so asking in advance would be wise. Check out the first thought first. Roon ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert J. Moore To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 7:57 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] tracing a light switch
Dale Since it looks like it may not be hooked up to any thing that you could find, what I would do is take off the switch plate and have some one sighted look to see if there are even any wires going to the switch. I don't know how you would check that your self without sighted help since you can't turn off the braker being that you have no idea which breaker it is hooked up to if it is hooked up at all. If it is not wired you could take out the switch and put a solid cover plate in its place. Then you would have a nice little conversation piece. -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dale Alton Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 7:10 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: [BlindHandyMan] tracing a light switch Hey gang, I moved into my house about a year ago and found a couple of light switches that I have no idea as to where they go. I do know that one of them heads up into the attic and towards the front of the house. Is there a contraption that I am about able to put on the light switch and have it make a sound to the coordinating end? I have tested several outlets to no avail. I thought maybe it was a three way switch that currently wasn't being used. Every place I have looked has just turned up dead ends. Any thoughts? Dale [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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 Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ 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/
