Timeline for Why is my master bedroom light switch turning off the kitchen light?
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| Aug 1, 2022 at 15:40 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | @brhans This was a cascade effect: 3 wires -> must be 3-way -> 2 of the wires = travelers -> back to regular switch -> still called them travelers. So "incorrect, but understandable how OP got there". | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 15:37 | comment | added | brhans | @JoseLeon - just a note that you're potentially confusing both yourself & others by calling any of those wires "travelers". Only in 3-way (or 4-way) switching circuits are there any wires used as "travelers" - and you don't have that here. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 12:52 | comment | added | Aloysius Defenestrate | Now, @JoseLeon — mark this answer as accepted. Congrats on fixing this. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 6:55 | comment | added | Jose Leon | Okay I did what /manassehkatz-moving-2-codidact told me to do and it had been resolved. I bought a single pole switch, connected the red traveler to the top terminal, connected both hot and black traveler to the bottom terminal, connected the ground to ground terminal and walaaa!! It has been fixed. Thanks a bunch. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 0:36 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | Based on comments, I think that's what it does now but that there was a previous switch that didn't affect the kitchen at all | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 0:32 | comment | added | SteveSh | OP says the switch was controlling the kitchen. In one position, the closet light is on and the kitchen stuff off. In the other position, just the opposite. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 0:26 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | That's the point. The switch wasn't controlling the kitchen. But the hot wire used the switch as a junction. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 0:19 | comment | added | SteveSh | I agree with everything you said. But OP stated that the closet light and the kitchen stuff are far away from each other. If that's case, it does not make sense, at least in my mind, that the original switch was controlling both locations. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 0:14 | history | edited | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2022 at 23:45 | history | answered | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | CC BY-SA 4.0 |