{"id":168,"date":"2008-05-07T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T09:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=168"},"modified":"2008-05-07T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T09:56:36","slug":"domestic-3-way-or-more-lighting-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Domestic 3-Way (or more) Lighting Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you might want more than two switches on a lighting circuit. For example, one switch at each end of a hallway with another at the top of the stairs. If you have a big landing, you might even want four switches! Here’s how you do it.<\/p>\n

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The third switch is referred to as an Intermediate Switch, although technically speaking it’s a Double-Pole Double-Throw switch. The Brown wire doesn’t connect to the switch, it’ll have to be joined with a connector in the back-box. The Earth will also have to be joined in the back-box, on the Earth bonding point if it’s a metal box. The Grey and Black wires connect to each side of the switch.<\/p>\n

If you want more than three switches, just keep adding Intermediate ones in the same manner. They can go on either (or both) the Switch One or Switch Two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you might want more than two switches on a lighting circuit. For example, one switch at each end of a hallway with another at the top of the stairs. If you have a big landing, you might even want four switches! Here’s how you do it. The third switch is referred to as an… Continue reading Domestic 3-Way (or more) 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-168","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\/168","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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}