Light switches don't work?
OK, here's the deal. My wife wanted to go from convential light switches in our hallway to the flat rocker switches. Our hallway had three switches - one at one end, one in the middle, and one at the other end. Any of them could be used to turn the hallway lights on and off.
On the light switch packages at the store it had wiring diagrams showing what you needed for this configuration. It appeared that a combination of a four way switch in the middle, and three way switches at either end was the proper configuration.
Well, those are installed and now the lights only go on with the two end switches if the middle switch is on. If it is off, none of them work. The hall switch near the kitchen was not changed, it is the original.
obviously, something is wrong and the circuit is not being completed. Any ideas? Were these switches the proper ones to install? The two new switches appear to be identical wiring-wise to the old ones.
A three way switch should have 3 wires connected to it besides any ground wire. A four way switch should have 4 wires connected to it besides any ground. The wires should be connected the same way as the original switch. Assuming you put the proper type of switch in each place, I suspect you have a couple wires swapped on one of the switches. I would start at the four way. Red and black in and red and black out. Email if you can't figure it out. I'll be happy to help.
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