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Mon, Mar 14, 11 at 23:21
| 2-way switch? |
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- Posted by mike_kaiser (My Page) on Tue, Mar 15, 11 at 15:07
| Your local electrical supply house. Have you tried Google? |
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| yes I did but maybe I quit to quick. The web site I looked at had numerous pages of different switches but they were either single or 3-way. I'll keep looking. |
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- Posted by mike_kaiser (My Page) on Wed, Mar 16, 11 at 8:35
| Perhaps you're confusing the terminology (or more likely I don't understand what you're looking for). A single switch is for controlling a device (say a light) from a single location. If you want to control that device from two locations (say from either end of a long hallway) then you need a 3-way switch. If that's not what you're looking for, perhaps you could describe you situation in a bit more detail. |
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| 3-way and 4-way refer to the number of screws on the switch, not how many locations the light is controlled from. A pair of 3-way switches allows a light to be controlled from two locations. A pir of 3-way switches with a number (say X) of 4-way switches wired between them allows the light to be controlled from 2+X locations. A simple switch (two screws) allows control from only one location. |
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