DAMN SWITCHES!

penski

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Right...To cut a short story shorter:

My hallway has three light switches (A, B and C).

Right now, the lights are off, A is 'off', B is 'on' and C is 'off'.

What order do I need to switch them in to have the lights off and all the switches 'off' (pushed in at the top)...

This is making my mild OCD twitch.

*n
 
Its waaaaayyyy too early for these types of questions, dammit stop making me think :(

EDIT: AB ABB (swicth them in this order I think?)
 
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I don't think it can be done. Clicking switches A and B will result in the lights being off, with all the switches being in the same position, but the light switches will then all be "on".

Further, how on earth do you wire three switches for one set of lights? That's just crazy.
 
You can't do what you propose without an adjustment with a screwdriver (you have to swap the strappers around in one of the switches)

Further, how on earth do you wire three switches for one set of lights? That's just crazy.
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With two 2way switches and one intermediate switch, actually you can have as many intermediate switches as you want, so if you so wished you could have 10 switches for the same light
 
Adam_151 said:
You can't do what you propose without an adjustment with a screwdriver (you have to swap the strappers around in one of the switches)
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They were all the same way when I moved in though :(

*spacks*

*n
 
If you switch all the switches 'on' then the lights will be off, thats the best I can do, maybe that is what you remembered from when you moved in? If not, have you had anyone in to do any work that involved taking the switches off the wall, could've ended up reversing it :confused:
 
It can't be done. To end up with the lights off, you need to flick two switches. Since flicking the same switch twice in a row is clearly silly, we assume that you always flick different switches. At the moment one switch is 'on' which we denote as (1).

When you flick the two switches, you either flick one switch to on and one to off, which still leaves you with one switch 'on' (1). If you flick two switches on, you'll end up with all three in the on position (3). Then your only option is to flick two switches off, ending up back in the (1) position.

Basically, you want to get from (1) to (0), but you're only allowed to add or subtract 2 each time. So it can't be done.
 
taking the bulb out will be easiest.

penski said:
What order do I need to switch them in to have the lights off and all the switches 'off' (pushed in at the top)...

*n
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as arcade fire said thats actually impossible because of how stairway style light wiring is done.
 
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A-off B-on C-off - lights off

A-on B-on C-off - lights on

A-on B-on C-on - lights off

A-off B-on C-on - lights on

A-off B-off C-on - lights off

A-off B-off C-off - lights on

No way to do it I don't think unless you turn one switch upside down :(
 
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