Timeline for 3-way chandelier switch strange behavior
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| Feb 9, 2019 at 12:29 | vote | accept | David Doria | ||
| Feb 9, 2019 at 12:29 | answer | added | David Doria | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 12:42 | comment | added | David Doria | Ok, success! I rewired the situation to only use two of the switches in a normal 3-way configuration (and I'll just throw blank switch covers on the other two). I had to hijack one of the wires from 'door' to 'kitchen' to actually connect 'door' to the light. I also had to take power from an adjacent switch in the 'stairs' box, because previously power was being pulled from 'upstairs'. I think I'll call this 'good enough' for now :). So the answer to the original question (besides "look for more switches") is "if your lights are dimming, they're probably attached to a dimmer...!". | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 3:42 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | Can you post photos of the insides of the boxes? It sounds like you have a four-location four-way setup here.... | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 2:49 | history | edited | David Doria | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
A...nother... switch....
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| Jan 29, 2019 at 2:20 | history | edited | David Doria | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Found some extra wires...
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| Jan 28, 2019 at 21:49 | comment | added | David Doria | @JeffCates So I just tie all 3 wires coming to switch A together with a wire nut so that I can test switch B as if it were the only switch on the circuit (and then vice-versa to test switch A)? What are we looking for here - a bad switch? | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 17:42 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | That's a good plan, troubleshoot the 3-way circuits first. Here's the basic wiring of 3-ways. diy.stackexchange.com/a/156080/47125 | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 17:39 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Lessee.. 1200 watts of lighting... Lighting is a continuous load... Derate by 125%, giving 1440 watts... leaving room for only 360W of additional non-continuous load or 288W of continuous. That must be hardwired because you cannot have receptacles on a circuit that's more than 50% hardwired load. Wow. That previous load was challenging. Glad you're going LED. | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 3:50 | comment | added | Jeff Cates | Try to eliminate 1 switch from the circuit for now and test. | |
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| Jan 28, 2019 at 1:56 | history | asked | David Doria | CC BY-SA 4.0 |