Capping sour my three passageway switch..? Ok... I asked another question and no one seem to answer me....
Ok... I asked another question and no one seem to answer me. So, heres the story. I want to add a fan/light dimmer for this ceiling fan i am going to put contained by and it has two switches that turn it off and on (three approach switches.) I read that you can't put a Fan/light dimmer on each switch and that you cant do it unless there is a seperate circuit for the enthusiast and light. But, they have these dimmers by lutron call Maestro IR and the fan part is run by a module you put in the fan blind and the light part is in recent times hard wired. I want to ask. How do i cap sour the other switch so that i can just put a coverplate over it and only use the other switch. Do i a short time ago put a wire nut on the red wire on respectively switch and on the one im not using just tie the black and black and white and white together and put a plate over it? Can someone answer me please?
The quiz cannot be accurately answered because there's more than one way to wire three agency switches. It would help if I knew how copious wires, what colors and cables are in respectively box and how the switches are now connected.
For instance, the feed and nouns can be in the same switchbox beside just three wires going to the second switch box, or, the feed can be contained by one box and the load in the other box, or the three wires can progress up to the light box, then down to the second switch box. ( By "load" I close-fisted the light switch leg)
I know that you are having trouble getting a worthy answer, but, everyone pictures in their mind a different situation. Even though they try hard to relieve, it's difficult.
Once again, we own a case of "If you have to ask."
And, this time, the answers are more convoluted than the interview (which was bad enough).
Save your go (and a lot of time) and hire a qualified, licensed Electrical Contractor to do the installation for you.
The NEC [Article 90.1 (C)] says that it is not a "Do-it-Yourself" encyclopaedia. People should read it to that point, and then open the Yellow Pages.
Answers: Here's the easiest way to accomplish what you are trying to do. TURN THE BREAKER OFF. Find the switch that contains the hot. Connect that rope to one of the poles of the new switch. Then connect one of the travelers to the other pole of the switch. Cap off the traveler that you don't use. Connect the ground, install the switch surrounded by the box and install the cover. You are done there.
Now go to the other switch box. Take the traveler that you connected contained by the first box and connect it to the common wire near a wire nut. Be sure to use the same traveler. Cap sour the other traveler. Connect the grounds and install a blank cover. Turn the power back on and your switch should control the light. Good luck.
you got a combo fan and muted for the ceiling. Now how many wires coming from the unit? a white chain (nuetral) a black wire (a hot for either the supporter or the light) a red--a hot for either the fan or the flimsy. and a bare wire--the safety ground cable.
You keep talking roughly speaking 3 way switches---you dont have a 3 course switch--it is something completely different --and has nothing to do next to what you are doing. so stop talking about 3 course switches.
Your fan and light share like peas in a pod nuetral wire. But the nuetral wire customarily is not connected to any switch ,,,it comes directly from the fuse box to the fixture---just like a light fixture.
So when you put contained by this special light switch that you bought you are only dealing next to the 2 hot wires--one for the light and one for the fan.--essentially 2 separate switches.
The rest of your post have me a little confused and maybe you could explain rather further or refer me to a website for this switch.