The handyman was of the notion that the 2011 rule doesn't need to be followed if it's hard. "You should have asked for neutral for smart switches" -> no, NEC 2011 already says that is required. Your handyman (I'm sorry, I cannot keep calling this person an electrician) wanted to drive 4 lights, which using old-style switch loops (outlawed in 2011), required 5 conductors. What was the person thinking? I thought these were 3 switch loops. You will be able to wire switches to the left cable only, but you will need the "No Neutral Required" variety. If you paid the person through one of those gig sites like TaskRabbit, exercise your right to refund etc. and that person wants to get paying work from other customers not learn a bunch of stuff and fix your work for free. Your demands just exceeded the person's abilities. This is out of my wheelhouse and he is no longer responding to my requests.īecause it seems to be also out of your "electrician's" wheelhouse. This is not allowed for a bunch of technical reasons relating to EMF, vibration and eddy current heating. What's more, the "electrician" brought down the 5 wires in 2 separate cables.
#3 WAY SWITCH WITH 4 WIRES CODE#
Smart switches are the entire point of the NEC 2011 code change.
#3 WAY SWITCH WITH 4 WIRES PLUS#
(hot, neutral, plus four switched-hots for the various things). The electrician needs to bring neutral down from the light, using what will certainly have to be smurf tube to bring down the 6 wires required. I don't know what this electrician was thinking (are you in a FEMA built trailer? Those are at NEC 2005) but yeah, these are no-go. Which have been outlawed since NEC 2011 landed. All these circuits are old style pre-2011 switch loops This stuff is basically eBay, and it all comes from China, and they use the Amazon warehouse system to dodge the import laws. This happened to you because you bought this off the Amazon Marketplace flea market. Looks very pretty - they're good at that - and will burn your house down. If it had a UL listing, it could be sold in retail stores, but it can't get one because it is inherently unsafe. They lie about being UL Listed, and they pay people to write them positive reviews. You can't use these in US mains wiring because they are unlisted dreck from China. Those switches can't be used because they're dreck But, I’d like to get these installed today. This is out of my wheelhouse and he is no longer responding to my requests. Then the black wire on the right goes to the overhead desk light (3) and the white wire with black tape goes to the spot lights (4).Īnd the white wire in the middle with red tape that is capped to 4 black wires provides all the power. I asked my electrician and he said the red and black wires on the left are to go to the fan (1) and light (2).
I am just at a loss for where to put each wire and it looks like there are only 3 wires per switch, not 4. I see the 4 black wires for power, the 4 copper ground wires. The 4 switches go to my fan (1), the light in the fan (2), an overhead desk light (3) and 3 small in-ceiling spot lights (4). Each switch has 4 wires coming out of the back. I am not sure what my electrician did when wiring my new office.
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