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Answers (6)
Best Answer
- So Cal Home Automation, "SoCal HomeAutomation"
- Contributions:16
Hi Trump,
You have confused the two.
The 3 way switch is for switching at two or more locations.
The 3 pull switch is for a 3way light bulb or 3 way lamp. ( 50, 100 150 watt lamps )
They do not work hand in hand.
You have confused the two.
The 3 way switch is for switching at two or more locations.
The 3 pull switch is for a 3way light bulb or 3 way lamp. ( 50, 100 150 watt lamps )
They do not work hand in hand.
- Trump Junior
- Contributions:82
Hey SoCal,
While I've got you on the line. If I go the remote switch route, would you recommend the X-10 (which you made a business of repairing!) or a Levitron solution or something else?
While I've got you on the line. If I go the remote switch route, would you recommend the X-10 (which you made a business of repairing!) or a Levitron solution or something else?
- Trump Junior
- Contributions:82
Yes, so far I have been unable to find any such thing as a real 3-way pull switch. No matter what it says on the box they are really 3-position switches and don't work for what I want. The only answer so far is I would have to use some kind of remote switching technology, which I haven't tried yet because it would put me out about $150. I can't believe that in a country so great as America we don't have a 3-way pull switch!!!!!
- wetdawgs
- Contributions:26762
I once installed a switch by the head of the bed plus one by the door so that the overhead lamp could be operated from both locations. It was very convenient!
- Trump Junior
- Contributions:82
I think you are right and that is why the switch doesn't perform the way I want. I guess I am trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and will have to use wall switches all around.
Anybody have a setup in their bedroom where they can turn the ceiling lamp off or on by a pull switch and also on or off by a wall switch outside the room? I'd be interested to know if the solution is out there somewhere and I just haven't found it.
Anybody have a setup in their bedroom where they can turn the ceiling lamp off or on by a pull switch and also on or off by a wall switch outside the room? I'd be interested to know if the solution is out there somewhere and I just haven't found it.
- bladebuddy
- Contributions:15
Trump, The only reference I can find to a "3 way pull switch" is the kind you put into fans w/ lights. These are set so that each of the 3 possible "on" positions allow a different Volt&Amp level which makes the fan turn at different speeds.The Sequence of operation (per pull) is: Low, Medium, High, Off
I've never heard of and can't find reference to a switch like the one you describe. Any chance you bought one of these thinking it would do what its just not built to do?
If you can post a link to the pull switch product, I'll take a look and tell you what I think's gone wrong. Other than that, this is the page I use for reference in wiring 3 ways.
http://www.homeimprovementweb.com/information/how-to/three-way-switch.htm
I've never heard of and can't find reference to a switch like the one you describe. Any chance you bought one of these thinking it would do what its just not built to do?
If you can post a link to the pull switch product, I'll take a look and tell you what I think's gone wrong. Other than that, this is the page I use for reference in wiring 3 ways.
http://www.homeimprovementweb.com/information/how-to/three-way-switch.htm
3 way pull switch...
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