Timeline for Fixing a (possibility) incorrectly wired 4 way light
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| Jan 7, 2020 at 12:25 | vote | accept | Mmagh | ||
| Jan 7, 2020 at 3:21 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @Mmagh it did sound like that, didn't it? Fixed. Yes that couldn't be supply hot, because there'd need to be an accompanying neutral. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 3:20 | history | edited | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2020 at 3:15 | comment | added | Mmagh | I understood your first post to mean that the white is supplying power to the pigtail, not drawing from it. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 2:55 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @Mmagh I expected the white+black+pigtail to be always-hot. It's splitting power both to be used in the 3-wa complex, and for the porch light. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 2:45 | comment | added | Mmagh | Wow, thanks for the insight. That actually makes sense except for problems with the switched white on the single pole. Testing the voltage with a non contact tester shows that the mains power to the single pole switch is coming in from top furthest right 14/3, switching the center-top 14/3 for the light outside. So the white that is capped with the 2 black (all of which where unmarked when I opened the box) is always hot, taking power from the light outside, not supplying it as you suggest. I marked it with tape, but I'm still not 100% sure where it is going. | |
| Jan 5, 2020 at 20:12 | history | answered | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |