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- Windsor, CO NEC: 2017
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- Service Manager
Imagine you're farmed out to another EC, and trimming a house.
What device would you put on this set of wires?
What device would you put on this set of wires?
Communication in Wiring
- Thread starter George Stolz
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mcclary's electrical
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A 3 way with the one that is wrapped being the common
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- Licensed Electrician
Three way switch, two travelers with the common wrapped around them.
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- Massachusetts
Obviously a small three phase motor.
I would have guessed 3 way.
I would have guessed 3 way.
qcroanoke
Sometimes I don't know if I'm the boxer or the bag
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- Roanoke, VA.
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- Sorta retired........
A single pole switch with the wrapped one being the switch leg and pigtailing the other two for the feed.
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- Windsor, CO NEC: 2017
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- Service Manager
And what makes you think that over a three way?
ishium 80439
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Certainly the first thought is 3 way. The other possibility is the wrapped wire being the hot and the other 2 being SL's for a fan/ light combo.
qcroanoke
Sometimes I don't know if I'm the boxer or the bag
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- Roanoke, VA.
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- Sorta retired........
They all appear to be black conductors. If it was my 3-way one of them would be red.
ishium 80439
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If that is the case my question is why in the world a feed through wasn't spliced through on the rough. Seems terribly inefficient.
growler
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Wouldn't it be more fun to imagine that I just won the lottery and would never have to trim out another house as long as I live?
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- Windsor, CO NEC: 2017
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- Service Manager
Like a stacked switch?
Ah, but we didn't rough this, the home team did, and has two-wire traveler threeways all over the place prior to arriving at this switch.
Agreed!
Well, yeah, but that is a topic for a different forum.
qcroanoke
Sometimes I don't know if I'm the boxer or the bag
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- Roanoke, VA.
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- Sorta retired........
Ah, but we didn't rough this, the home team did, and has two-wire traveler threeways all over the place prior to arriving at this switch.
Boy! I bet the rest of the house was a real joy to figure out!
But wouldn't two wire travelers cause inductive heating? (Typed with tongue in cheek)
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mcclary's electrical
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Only one is energized at a time. But I always run a neutral with mine.(except if feed and leg are in the same box.
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- Simi Valley, CA
Did anyone say 3-way yet?
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- Windsor, CO NEC: 2017
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- Service Manager
That is all it takes for inductive heating.
mcclary's electrical
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- VA
That is all it takes for inductive heating.
True, but he referenced two travellers, not the lack of a grounded conductor.
walkerj
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Maybe all the whites were mistakenly tied together and now you have hot/traveler/common
ishium 80439
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A stacked switch is what I was talking about, or if it was a paddle fan a fan controller on the same strap.
But the suspense is killing me- what did it turn out to be?
But the suspense is killing me- what did it turn out to be?
masterinbama
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Whatever the blue prints call for.
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