3 way switches

[bpascale507]

If I have a single switch box, which is wired to be a dead end 3 way (black and red are travelers, bare ground, and white is my power)...is it possible to jump out and add a 120v receptacle? How do I grab a neutral?

 

[ultramegabob]

sorry, no way to do it with that set up...

 

[zappy]

wrong switch you have the hot & neut. coming in to the other switch.

 

[al hildenbrand]

Is the neutral present at the other threeway?

If so, convert from a hardwired threeway to an X-10 type, or wireless type, threeway and put the neutral on the white, hot on black and abandon the red.

If the cable from the luminaire(s) is only a two-wire (pure switch loop), then there is no neutral. . . .probably.

 

[ultramegabob]

Is the neutral present at the other threeway?

If so, convert from a hardwired threeway to an X-10 type, or wireless type, threeway and put the neutral on the white, hot on black and abandon the red.

If the cable from the luminaire(s) is only a two-wire (pure switch loop), then there is no neutral. . . .probably.

or tap your recept out of a diffent device somehere else:grin:

 

[bpascale507]

thanks everyone for your help