Timeline for Powering multiple switches from one switch
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| Feb 3, 2021 at 17:33 | comment | added | FreeMan | I'm with you. I'm just working under the assumption that most people are as clueless as I was when I started hanging out here. | |
| Feb 3, 2021 at 17:03 | comment | added | George Anderson | @FreeMan oops, re-read my comment and just assumed most ppl would know that a 3-way switches are paired, but it wasn't obvious in my comment. | |
| Feb 3, 2021 at 17:00 | comment | added | George Anderson | @FreeMan I think we are saying the same thing using different words. Using 2 3-way switches with /3 between is the only way to do it. The only point I was trying to make was I find running power to the first 3-way, /3 to the other 3-way (and 4-way if needed), then, like you said /2 to the fixture is the cleanest way, least complicated way to do it. There are several ways to wire 3-ways, but i feel my method is the cleanest, even if it takes a bit more cable. | |
| Feb 3, 2021 at 15:21 | comment | added | FreeMan | It will take at least 1 pair of 3-way switches to make this work, so if power is supplied at the switch, that will still require pulling a /3 cable to the 2nd switch, then /2 cable to the other lights. | |
| Feb 3, 2021 at 0:01 | comment | added | George Anderson | @EdBeal yep. and LOL at the first part of your comment! Also, for 3-way, 4-way switches, if at all practical, I "almost always" run power into one "end" of the circuit, and run the other "end" to the fixture(s)....no box stuffing, no code taping, clean. But that's just my pref and at times it does take more cabling. | |
| Feb 2, 2021 at 23:57 | history | edited | George Anderson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Meant to add exception to first point, not the 2nd, my bad.
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| Feb 2, 2021 at 23:56 | comment | added | Ed Beal | I can’t say always because always and never get me in trouble but since the code changes that require a neutral it is much more common for me to drop power at the switch. | |
| Feb 2, 2021 at 19:12 | history | answered | George Anderson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |