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Posted by metspitzer on April 24, 2008, 5:33 pm
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:33:55 -0500, Buy1get1free
>On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:36:56 -0400, Jeff Wisnia
>
>>dylanmac@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I have a room with two sets of lights. One set is controlled by a
>>> single pole switch. The other set is on a three way switch. How do I
>>> combine them so that all the lights are controlled by the 3-way
>>> switches?
>>>
>>> Conveniently, the single pole and one of the three way switches are
>>> double-ganged in the same switch box.
>>>
>>> Also I have power from different circuits running to each of switch
>>> boxes (one is for the single, the other is for the three-way).
>>
>>
>>Assuming the circuit powering the three-way lights has sufficient
>>ampacity to safely handle adding the "other" lights and whatever else
>>may be on that circuit, the job could be either very easy or a real PIA,
>>depending on how lucky you are with how the job was originally wired.
>>
>>What I'd do is connect a test lamp between the arm of the three-way
>>switch and the neutral of that circuit and see if that test lamp goes on
>>and off with the existing three-way lights when either switch is operated.
>>
>>If it does, you're in luck, and all you'd have to do is move the
>>switched lead from the single pole switch (feeding it's lamps) to the
>>arm of the three-way switch and move the neutral going to the lamps from
>>it's present connection to the neutral of the circuit feeding the
>>three-way lamps.
>>
>>If the test lamp doesn't follow the present three-way lights, but stays
>>on all the time, chances are you're SOL unless you're willing to to pull
>>some new leads. And that's likely what you'll find if the power for that
>>three-way circuit enters the box those switches are in.
>>
>>Jeff
>
>If they lights are on separate circuits you would have to use a relay
That should read...
If "them" lights are on separate circuits you would have to use a
relay :)
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