I have no idea what the heck you are talking about. Speaking of which though, in my bedroom we have a double switch on the wall with a ceiling fan with light attached. One switch turns on the fan the other switch turns on the light. All the sudden the light no longer turns on but the fan still does. I thought maybe it was the light assembly so I swapped from another room still not working, one from bedroom worked in the other room. So I hope maybe I can figure this out without having to pay an electrician to come out. I know zero about home electrical stuff.
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Dan Penoff <lwb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yeah, I know how to wire a three way switch, but I have added a wrinkle... > > I have a three way switch arrangement for the lighting in my kitchen. There > are switches at either end of the kitchen, either of which will turn on or > off the lighting. A typical three way switch arrangement with two travelers, > etc. This works just fine right now. > > Here's the wrinkle: > > I am adding some task lighting, for which I ran the romex from the "primary" > three way switch to the lighting. I added a second single pole, single throw > switch to the box. I tapped off the AC feed to the three way switch for the > power to the task lighting switch. > > When the three way switch is turned on, the task lighting will turn on as > well, if its switch is on, as it will turn off when the three way switch goes > off. When the kitchen lighting is off, the task lighting will not turn on > and as one would expect, there is no power at the input to the task lighting > switch. > > While I haven't put pencil to paper and drawn this out yet, I am thinking > that I am getting a back feed through the "new" circuit that is preventing it > from working correctly. This doesn't make total sense to me, unless I am not > at the box where the primary feed for the three way circuit is. Either this > or the primary circuit is dropping to zero when it is on (potential to > ground) because there is now a load on it, effectively cutting off power to > the new lighting circuit. > > I am wondering if I will need to put a diode in series to prevent this from > happening. > > Anyone want to wrap their mind around this one? > > Dan > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
