Went in to talk to a tax person yesterday about doing my taxes. When she saw I was an electrician she asked me to look at a light switch she was having trouble with. Her office is an addition to an older home. The switch was in the original part of the home.
I wasn't prepared for this, didn't have tools or meter, etc. so I was only able to look at what kind of switch it was. It's definitely something I've never seen before. I took a couple of photos and told her I'd have to research it a little before I could help her out.
Can anyone help me identify this type of lighting system? The rotary dial supposedly allows her to select which light to turn on, then the push button turns that seleced light on. She didn't know too much about the operation of it since she bought the house recently and it has never worked properly. She didn't even know how many lights it operated.
It looks like the push button part of the switch is broken and doesn't work.
That's about all I know about the system, as I didn't even have a flashlight to look into the wall cavity (there was no j-box for the switch, it appeared to be mounted by wood screws to a stud?)
Could it be a low-voltage setup, with contactors located elsewhere in the house? I thought about this after leaving, and have heard about setups like that.
I'm not sure where to go from here?
I wasn't prepared for this, didn't have tools or meter, etc. so I was only able to look at what kind of switch it was. It's definitely something I've never seen before. I took a couple of photos and told her I'd have to research it a little before I could help her out.
Can anyone help me identify this type of lighting system? The rotary dial supposedly allows her to select which light to turn on, then the push button turns that seleced light on. She didn't know too much about the operation of it since she bought the house recently and it has never worked properly. She didn't even know how many lights it operated.
It looks like the push button part of the switch is broken and doesn't work.
That's about all I know about the system, as I didn't even have a flashlight to look into the wall cavity (there was no j-box for the switch, it appeared to be mounted by wood screws to a stud?)
Could it be a low-voltage setup, with contactors located elsewhere in the house? I thought about this after leaving, and have heard about setups like that.
I'm not sure where to go from here?