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Aaron Fude wrote:
Hi,

This is probably too convoluted to try and explain here but I'll try.

I have two lights that I want to control with 3-way switches: 1 light
is in the garage 60 feet away and one light is the house. I plan to
put them on the same circuit.

In the house I have two 3-way switches: H1 and H2
In the garage I have two 3-way switches: G1 and G2

I planned to share the neutral, so I put in the conduit one 14/3 and
one 14/2.
But now it seems to be that I'm one wire short!!!
The problem is that while the garage light is wired H1-G1-light, the
house light needs to be wired H2-light-G2 and I just can't come up
with a diagram that will make it work.

Can anyone help out of my predicament?

Thanks!

Aaron

the diagrams at
http://www.electrical-online.com/wiringdiagrams.htm
may be of help

if I understand what you are trying to do, you may need to wire the
H1G1 set as "Basic", and the H2G2 set as "Variation #3", involving a
total of 6 wires between house and garage. Note that Var 3 really does
not have a "neutral" between the house and garage !!