Thread: Wiring for multiple control [4 switches control one set of lights]light switch !!!
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Default Wiring for multiple control [4 switches control one set of lights]light switch !!!
On 6/21/2013 7:06 PM, wrote:
On Friday, June 21, 2013 6:33:56 PM UTC-4, dpb wrote:
On 6/21/2013 4:31 PM, Fred McKenzie wrote:

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I believe Robert has the answer he was looking for by now - reverse
connection of two wires.

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That only solves the problem as long as none of the other switches
change _their_ position--...
...unless he no longer ever uses any of the others ...
...switching a traveler doesn't solve the problem, either.


That's exactly how I see it too.....

'Cuz that's how it is...

As somebody else noted, the only way he can accomplish the goal is to
use a bunch of logic or a wireless controller or somesuch--it just is
simply not possible w/ conventional house wiring w/ multiway switches
unless the others on the circuit in question aren't changed from their
positions when the target one is as desired (there are combinations of
the others' positions that also leave the one unchanged, of course, by
switching them in pairs, for example, but not in general).

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