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I have a brand new 3 way switch kit (master and slave). The problem is that the master will turn the loghts on and off , but the slave will only turn the lighs off NOT on. The wires coming out of your swich are re and 2 blues for the slave and a red black and blue on the master. I am currently connected on the master as follows:
MASTER HOUSE WIRING RED RED BLACK BLACK BLUE WHITE SLAVE HOUSE WIRING RED RED BLUE BLACK BLUE WHITETHE FIRST INSTALLATION OF THE 3 WAYS WENT FINE, I ALSO TESTED THE SLAVE WITH AN OHMMETER, THE CICUIT CLOSED WHEN I PRESSES THE BUTTON. I TRIED SWITCHING THE MASTER SLAVE LOCATIONS BUT IT DIDNT HELP. ANY SUGGESTIONS? | |
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I assume you are talking about X-10 switches here. The wiring of the switches depends on how the electrician wired your 3-way light since it can be done multiple ways.
Many electricians will run power to the lamp itself and then will run a 2 conductor cable to the switch setup with the black wire connected to hot and the white wire connected to the lamp (with the other side of the lamp wired to neutral) Don't treat this color coding as gospel as I've seen some runteh HOT over white with the lamp connected to black! Most electricians wiring a lamp this way will wrap a strip of black tape around any white conductor carrying hot (switched or not) You likely have this seutp if you have a total of 8 conductors in the master & slave boxes (Red/White/Black in one and Red/2 Whites/2 Blacks in the other) If you have 10 conductors total (5 - 1 Red/2 Blacks/2 Whites in each box), the electrician ran power to the switch box and then runs switched power to the lamp. An indicator of this is if the white conductors are tied together in each box (there should be 2 Whites in each box) OK. So, if you have 8 conductors total, the 2 conductor black/white cable brings power from the lamp and carries switched power back. Wire the switches as follows:
If you have 10 conductors total:
More information can be found in the X-10 3-Way switch manual
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