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[Electroglow]

Hi all...

Has any one got a diagram for 4 way switching ?

Not intermediate but 4 way?

Thanks all

 

[Andy™]

Hi all... Has any one got a diagram for 4 way switching ?

Not intermediate but 4 way?

Thanks all

just intermediate with 2x intermediate switches instead of 1?

 

[Electroglow]

Yes sorry, has any one got a good diagram of it. I have tryed to find one on google but all r rubbish?

 

[Andy™]

Yes sorry, has any one got a good diagram of it. I have tryed to find one on google but all r rubbish?

look at a normal intermediate diagram and fit in another intermediate switch...

 

[Electroglow]

Lol I knwhat one looks like.. I want a good one to show a apprenty tomoro when he wires one up for me lol

 

[Andy™]

teach him how it works and get him to figure it out himself from a more basic diagram

 

[a1]

Download section mate. (as said, just add more intermediates in between).

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[Evans Electric]

Electroglow , just draw a 2 way circuit and add two intermediates .

See Andy's post .

 

[OnOff]

How about this taken from my college handouts:

(Yes......I know the sleeves are RED!)

 

[springcrocus]

However, we usually use the two-way terminal in the rose for the switched live and the three-way terminal for the neutral, contrary to what is pictured.

 

[OnOff]

However, we usually use the two-way terminal in the rose for the switched live and the three-way terminal for the neutral, contrary to what is pictured.

Never noticed TBH, just picked up on the red not brown sleeving! Was too busy picking holes in the other B&B Training books we got.......dire IMO!

 

[Steve3948]

Why is it that in my area everyone uses the Brown/Red as common, yet other areas use the Grey/Yellow on 2 Way Switching and Intermediate :C

 

[ProDave]

On new builds, I've been doing a completely different method for a while now.

Feed L into the first switch. TWO switched live's and NEUTRAL out from the first switch on a 3 core.

Next (intermediate) switch, the neutral passes straight through and the two switched lives go through the intermediate switch.

At the end of the chain, the two switched lives into the switch, giving you one switched live out to the lamp, and of course the neutral out to the lamp from there.

This avoids "loop at the light" which with todays fascination for downlighters avoids needs for junction boxes in the ceiling. And compared to all wires in the first switch, it makes each switch box a lot less congested.

Although I've been doing it for ages, I don't recall ever seeing it documented that way, so can I claim the patent for this method and charge you royalties for using it :innocent

 

[Andy™]

On new builds, I've been doing a completely different method for a while now.Feed L into the first switch. TWO switched live's and NEUTRAL out from the first switch on a 3 core.

Next (intermediate) switch, the neutral passes straight through and the two switched lives go through the intermediate switch.

At the end of the chain, the two switched lives into the switch, giving you one switched live out to the lamp, and of course the neutral out to the lamp from there.

This avoids "loop at the light" which with todays fascination for downlighters avoids needs for junction boxes in the ceiling. And compared to all wires in the first switch, it makes each switch box a lot less congested.

Although I've been doing it for ages, I don't recall ever seeing it documented that way, so can I claim the patent for this method and charge you royalties for using it :innocent

done it that way a few times

and if you have 2x switches at opposite ends of room, you can take a 3c&e from the light to each switch, instead of 3c&e between them & t&e from light to one of them. and you could add an intermediate into either switch wire

 

[loonytoon]

On new builds, I've been doing a completely different method for a while now.Feed L into the first switch. TWO switched live's and NEUTRAL out from the first switch on a 3 core.

Next (intermediate) switch, the neutral passes straight through and the two switched lives go through the intermediate switch.

At the end of the chain, the two switched lives into the switch, giving you one switched live out to the lamp, and of course the neutral out to the lamp from there.

This avoids "loop at the light" which with todays fascination for downlighters avoids needs for junction boxes in the ceiling. And compared to all wires in the first switch, it makes each switch box a lot less congested.

Although I've been doing it for ages, I don't recall ever seeing it documented that way, so can I claim the patent for this method and charge you royalties for using it :innocent

Is this not known as the conduit method?

 

[steptoe]

also very similar to the traditional of single switch wires and twin strappers.

 

[batty]

I don't like to do things to different as I am easily confused.