The answer below is entirely correct and very nicely stated, but I will add
one additional step to respond to your specific request for the multiple
lights.....


When connecting "one switch and one light together" per the instructions
below, you actually need to connect the green switch's unused terminal to
the unused terminal on each of the 3 green lights, then connect the yellow
switch's unused terminal to the unused terminal on each of the 2 yellow
lights, and finally the last switch, red's unused terminal, to the unused
terminal on each of each of 2 red lights.

Hope this helps you.

Smarty



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On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:25:23 -0700, wrote:

I want to create a light box for my son's little league, with three
green lights for balls, two yellow lights for strikes and two red
lights for outs. Each light needs to be on a seperate switch, but the
whole shebang will be wired together. Can anyone give me advice on
how to wire these all together? Thanks!


This is where I am supposed to tell you to hire an electrician before
you kill yourself, the whole team and all the spectators. ;-)

Wire one side of the battery to one side of all the switches, the
other side of the battery to one side of all the lights and then
connect one switch and one light together with the unused terminals.