{"id":154,"date":"2008-05-06T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T10:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-05-06T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T11:21:47","slug":"domestic-2-way-lighting-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Domestic 2-Way Lighting Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following diagram shows my preferred method for wiring a domestic 2-way lighting circuit.  In this context, 2-way implies that two switches attach to the same light.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/light-2-way.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/light-2-way.png\" alt=\"Diagram of 6 terminal junction box\" title=\"2-Way Lighting\" width=\"418\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the above diagram, the Supply and Light cables are standard 3-core (Live, Neutral and Earth).  The Switch cables are special 4-core used specifically for this type of circuit.  A six-terminal junction box is required and only one supply can be wired to it.  If the junction box has to be part of a ring then a standard four-terminal junction box will also be required to link Supply-In, Supply-Out and Supply to the six-terminal box.  When wiring the six-terminal box a good simple check is to ensure that all terminals (except the Earth) have two wires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following diagram shows my preferred method for wiring a domestic 2-way lighting circuit. In this context, 2-way implies that two switches attach to the same light. In the above diagram, the Supply and Light cables are standard 3-core (Live, Neutral and Earth). The Switch cables are special 4-core used specifically for this type of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=154\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Domestic 2-Way Lighting Circuit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-wiring","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}