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• Posted in thread: help with 3 way wiring on 06-08-2010 at 02:55 PM
  You are showing all 4 switches as 3 way switches , are all these switches controlling the same
  lights? If so there has to be 2 4 way switches involved . You can not use 3 way switches in all
  the locat...

• Posted in thread: Range wiring on 12-12-2009 at 03:07 PM
  Nobody seems to understand what i am asking. I would like to find out how a #10 neutral got to
  the range location. I know what the neutral does once it get there. What I am saying is they do
  not make ...

• Posted in thread: Range wiring on 12-12-2009 at 01:17 PM
  I guess you did not understand what i was saying. Normally all the conductors in a cable are
  the same size. they do not under size the neutral. So the question i am asking is how there is
  only a #10 n...

• Posted in thread: Range wiring on 12-12-2009 at 08:15 AM
  The wire size is correct for a 50 amp circuit,#6 is rated for 60 amps,but what i do not
  understand is you say the neutral is a #10. In a normal cable all the conductors are the same
  size except for th...

• Posted in thread: A pair of three-ways on 11-29-2009 at 11:55 AM
  Joe Did you look a the drawing slownsteady posted on one of his threads. It clearly shows the
  hot and the neutral in the same cable. They use the lighting box to do there make up. There is
  nothing in ...

• Posted in thread: A pair of three-ways on 11-27-2009 at 03:09 AM
  Thanks for the drawing. That what i thought was happening but wasn't sure. It is odd but it
  works.

• Posted in thread: A pair of three-ways on 11-26-2009 at 09:52 AM
  can you id the switch legs going to then lights? Who ever wired the existing switches must not
  of had any 14-3. if you had 3 14-2 in the switch box they had to be using 2 of the 14-2 as
  travelers and ...

• Posted in thread: A pair of three-ways on 11-26-2009 at 06:59 AM
  Are these 3 way switch existing or are you wanting to make them 3 ways. if they are existing
  did they work at one time? I am a little confused. Is there a 14-3 at both 3 way switch
  location or is one ...

• Posted in thread: A pair of three-ways on 11-25-2009 at 08:48 PM
  if you have just 2 14-3 in the switch box most likely all the make up is done in the second
  switch locations. The hot and the switch legs could both be in the second switch location and
  that may be wh...

• Posted in thread: 1890 house wiring issues. Help! on 11-03-2009 at 06:02 PM
  Do you Know exactly what is on the circuit, and how far did the electrician trace it before he
  gave up. It sound like you have circuit breaker so some of the electrical has already been
  ungraded. Are ...