What will be coming into the 3 gang light switch i have 3 red wires 2 black wires 1 blue and 1 yellow as well as the earth wires. Each of the gangs or switches above in fig 2 of which there are three work like this fig 3.
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How to wire a 3 gang 2 way switch. In position 1 when the switch is down or on com and l1 are connected together just like the one way switchin position 2 when the switch is up or off com and l2 are connected together. The wires are old there is 2 red wires and one black. Connect one of the green pigtails from the orange wire nut to each of the bare copper ground wires that are connected to the three fixtures. Thanks for watching like share. Feed a length of 14 3 type nm cable or 12 3 if youre connecting to 12 gauge wire between the two boxes. Twist the wires together with a yellow wire nut.
Tape the wire nut to the wires with electrical tape. At the first switch box the black wire that was run to the second 3 way switch can be connected to either the black load wire or the black line wire. Push the wires into the back of the gang box. The source hot wire is spliced to the common on the dimmer and the neutral is splice through to the light fixture. The black line wire or load wire that is not connected to the second 3 way switch gets connected onto the copper or black terminal of the first 3 way switch. By rule of thumb you would stick with 8 to 10 outlets and or lights per breaker.
My switch has top 1 way com 1 way com and 1 way bottom 2 way 2 way com and 2 way. Have rewired the switch back up but not working correctly. Its likely youll also need to replace the existing switch box with a larger one to accommodate the extra wires for the 3 way switch. There is also another short piece which bridged between 2 of. Wrap the tape around the wire nut and onto the wires. I have 2 ceiling lights in the living room operated by one 2 gang switch.
From the dimmer 3 wire cable runs to the other switch and 2 wire cable runs to the light fixture. Now this is of course they are 120 volts 60mhz usa or canada. Add an electrical box for the second 3 way switch in the basement. Well nec code does not have it listed that way. I took the lighting switch off to decorate. At the 3 way switch the white cable wire is marked black and connected to the common terminal.
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