Newsgroups: alt.home.repair misc.consumers.house misc.consumers.frugal-living
From: spambait@milmac.com (Doug Miller)
Subject: Re: Problems with Three way switch wiring
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 01:16:39 GMT

In article <4be257cb.0405151546.7489cf7f@posting.google.com>, condor_222@yahoo.com (Roger Redford) wrote:
>HI,
>
>I hate to be the dummy here, but I'm having some 
>problems with the wiring.
>
>I'm changing some electrical switches.  I have 
>a three way combo that is giving me problems.
[snip]
>
>The new switches do not resemble the old ones,

You probably don't have the right kind of switches, then.

Wiring up three-way switches is not rocket science, but it's hard to diagnose 
your problem from over here.

The best advice I can give you is to get yourself a book on residential wiring 
(try Lowe's, Home Depot, or your local library) and *don't* mess around with 
your wiring any more until you read the book and understand what you're doing.

Electricity is *dangerous* to the uninformed. And you are in that category. 
Fortunately, that's an easy problem to fix. :-)