3-way switching

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RyanA said:
No that's a 5 way switch.
It only works if you read the
entire manual through.
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Ryan,

The "3-Way Switch", as an electrical 'noun', is like a Dead Icon.
As you hinted, it is "through" and done with.

Per your lead URL, "NecroNomIcon" is the term for these moot issues.

That is the lighter side of a Dead Icon, as good Greek goes.
In Greek, "ikon is nothing more than a neuter adjectival suffix
and has nothing to do with eik?n (image)".

I think there is still some discussion forthcoming.
It has been forty years since my last Greek course,
and I had much rather chat around with my Latino neighbors now.

Greek, on the heavier side, has 47 declensions, impossible to speak,
with verb forms for which there never was, is not now, and never will be an English equivalent.

The Electrical Upshot of this comment is:
(1) The 1-Way is a non-functional NecroNomIcon.
(2) The 2-Way is a Single Pole Single-Throw.
(3) The 3-Way is a Single-Pole Double-Throw Switch.
(4) The 4-Way is a Double-Pole Reverse-Throw Switch.
(5) The 5-Way is some foolishness up with no electrician should put !

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Ready Kilowatt

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I guess I sit here and wonder how a home owner has nothing else to worry about other than which way a light switch is positioned. Some people...Geeesh!!
 
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muskrat

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Ready Kilowatt said:
I guess I sit here and wonder how a home owner has nothing else to worry about other than which way a light switch is positioned. Some people...Geeesh!!
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Had a GC I worked for that required all screws on cover plates to be horizontal. (harder to see that way)

Back up North 'der, hey, a Finlander 3-way was a pull-chain at the top of the stairs w/ a string run through screw-eyes to the bottom...saw a few of those in OLD houses.
 
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lakee911

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muskrat said:
Had a GC I worked for that required all screws on cover plates to be horizontal. (harder to see that way)
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I've heard they should be vertical as to not collect dust.

muskrat said:
Back up North 'der, hey, a Finlander 3-way was a pull-chain at the top of the stairs w/ a string run through screw-eyes to the bottom...saw a few of those in OLD houses.
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I rigged up one of those in the basement of my parents house when I was a young lad ... and the house was built in 1990.

Then again, I rigged one of those up in my own attic of my current 1923 house.

Never knew it had aname...
 
RyanA

RyanA

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glene77is said:
Ryan,

The "3-Way Switch", as an electrical 'noun', is like a Dead Icon.
As you hinted, it is "through" and done with.

Per your lead URL, "NecroNomIcon" is the term for these moot issues.

That is the lighter side of a Dead Icon, as good Greek goes.
In Greek, "ikon is nothing more than a neuter adjectival suffix
and has nothing to do with eik?n (image)".

I think there is still some discussion forthcoming.
It has been forty years since my last Greek course,
and I had much rather chat around with my Latino neighbors now.

Greek, on the heavier side, has 47 declensions, impossible to speak,
with verb forms for which there never was, is not now, and never will be an English equivalent.

The Electrical Upshot of this comment is:
(1) The 1-Way is a non-functional NecroNomIcon.
(2) The 2-Way is a Single Pole Single-Throw.
(3) The 3-Way is a Single-Pole Double-Throw Switch.
(4) The 4-Way is a Double-Pole Reverse-Throw Switch.
(5) The 5-Way is some foolishness up with no electrician should put !

:)
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I am really glad to see that I'm not the only one with too much time on my hands here.
 
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PaulWDent

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3-way switch solution

3-way switch solution

Tell him you can add a 4-way switch in at each end so that he can choose at each end whether the light is on with the respective 3-way switch up or down. (But put the 4-way switches in sideways, and charge the dumbass plenty!)
 
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