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I took a picture of the wiring to a wall switch because it has 4 connections onto it rather than 3. I did a switch previously in the house that only had a ground and two wires. This switch has a ground, two wires, plus this extra wire that goes from this switch to another switch just next to it in the same box.
I was wanting to replace this switch with a single pole dimmer. This is when I discovered this odd wiring pattern. I figured I could just remove the wire that goes between switches from the equation but the dimmer will not work.
I noticed that the box did say that a 3-way system will need a 3-way dimmer. But it also mentions how to make the 3-way wiring work with the single-pole by removing the ground. Well, whatever that's all about will not work because their diagram does not match the dimmer switch at all...

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1) Ok, so what is this extra wire between switches all about?

2) Why couldn't I get the dimmer to work with the wiring in this box?

Thanks in advance.
 
Presumably you hadn't been mulling it over for the 2 and a bit years since the thread was started.
 
You presume right! I only just came across it,

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, unless like I say, he's not a trained spark?
or it was his VERY first week ? (20 + yrs, and JIB registered aswell)
 
have i missed something here? where did 20+ and jib come from. by the ref' to ground, don't think he's even in the |UK.
 
Apprentice/trainee, domestic installer, DIYer, unconventional wiring, never come across the situation before...
It's difficult to say, the picture seems to have expired.
 
Exactly. He mentions taking a picture so I would have thought he'd posted it or a link to it, otherwise he wouldn't have mentioned it.
I can't see the picture either, so I'm guessing it's somehow 'expired'.
 
probably burnt the house down and rebuilt it by now
 
DIY'r ,
No I HAVE not spent 2 years mulling over it, like I said, I just came across it, and yes I am a Career Spark! with 20 + yrs etc etc etc,
And yes Ground? could mean he's outside of UK,
But then again , WHO KNOW'S ? now-days with C U L8R , peoples grammer now a days, and a GCSE course in English and Maths, whilst studying for a Electricians exam, THE SYSTEMS all a pot!!!!
 
DIY'r ,
No I HAVE not spent 2 years mulling over it, like I said, I just came across it, and yes I am a Career Spark! with 20 + yrs etc etc etc,
And yes Ground? could mean he's outside of UK,
But then again , WHO KNOW'S ? now-days with C U L8R , peoples grammer now a days, and a GCSE course in English and Maths, whilst studying for a Electricians exam, THE SYSTEMS all a pot!!!!
Pot, kettle, glass houses.
 
Pot kettle, and when in glass houses?

How do you come to that conclusion? READ my last thread,

GRAMMER "TEXT TALK" C U L8R" and Somebody calling a "EARTH" a ground because they've been
watching to much US TV,

I did not do a GCSE at College, I took MINE AT SCHOOL, not as a EXTRA to the 16th or 17th? Because the systems all gone to "pot"
 
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is it just me or is every thread on electricians forum turning into an argument ????? it`s getting boring...... my daddy can fight your daddy by the way :)
 
Yea yea what ever, boys,
Ok Mark, yep I should of checked dates,
Excusse me for being Conscientous and Experienced, Spark

Why? Because I see the lack of training an understanding of "our " Trade /Skills everyday,
And no my Dad cant fight yours , as my Dad is 84!!!!!!!
 

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