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You'll probably have to draw this out so I'll explain it to the best of my
ability: I have an outside light and an inside light connected to a set of 3-way switches. When switched, both the indoor and outdoor lights go on/off together. The 3 way switch in the basement has 1 cable with black, white, and red connected to the switch. The 3 way switch upstairs (the one in question) has 4 cables coming into the box and is connected as follows. Cable 1 (assumed power feed) - Black connected to different colored terminal on switch - White twisted together with 2 whites (from cable 2 and cable 3). Cable 2 (assumed cable from indoor and outdoor lights) - Black twisted together with black from cable 3 and white from cable 4. - White twisted together with 2 whites (from cable 1 and cable 3). Cable 3 (assumed kitchen light) - Black twisted together with black from cable 2 and white from cable 4. - White twisted together with 2 whites (from cable 1 and cable 2) Cable 4 (from downstairs 3-way switch) - Black to terminal on 3-way switch - Red to terminal on 3-way switch - White twisted together with 2 blacks (from cable 1 and 2) My goal is to use a combination 1 single pole and 1 3-way switch to have the inside light be connected to the 3 way switches and the outside light to be switched normally from the location in question. The Leviton switch I bought (CAT 5241) works such that the top switch is a 3-way and the bottom is a single pole standard switch. When I wired up the new switches, I didn't realize that the kitchen light was involved. I assumed the 4 cables were incoming power, link to 3-way switch in basement, outside light, inside light. It appears that I was wrong because now I have a mess (top switch controls inside and outside lights in conjunction with 3 way switch downstairs, bottom switch controls kitchen light based on the state of the top switch). Although the set of 3-way switches (switch in basement and top switch upstairs) is behaving correctly, the inside and outside lights still go on/off together. My new assumption is the outside light is wired to the inside light and comes down from the inside light to the 3 way switch as cable 2. I'm guessing that cable 3 is from the kitchen light. Do my assumptions make sense? Without running more cable, is there accomplish what I want? Thanks everyone for reading such a long post. |
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