Three way switch.

[kjung]

why go all the way to the basement, when you can trip em upstairs right?

a friend and i were helping a neighbor sort down a wiring issue. it was hot, and i asked the guy for a glass of water. he brings it to me, and asks, what's that for? i said, to find what circuit this outlet is on.

That's the beauty of a conduit system. I just have to ground the hot to the box to trip the breaker.

 

[jmendez29]

Also if you are ever stripping phone wires with your teeth, make sure you are not about to get a phone call, that hurts too.

HAHAHA. That made me laugh out loud. I actually saw that once. Had an electrician try to fix our phone at work. Saw the wire that was nearly broken and went to strip it back. The guy was a bit of a jokester, so when we saw him do a little dance, we thought he was messing with us, so we laughed at him. It wasn't until he told us that someone was trying to call us (in a rather p*ssed off voice) that we realized what really happened, and caused us to laugh harder.

 

[SOB]

Light up Gnomes:

Best of luck!

LGI...is that anything like what the misses uses as "that replacement willy" when you're away?

 

[ChshreCat]

The sub atomic level is totally impossible to understand when I'm sober. You think those little buggars are gonna behave any better when I'm lit? Shame on you sir! You are trying to shift me to a half dimension!

That's just fine because all that stuff about electrons moving from one point to another is complete BS. Electrical equipment all runs on smoke that is inside the different components. Once you let the smoke out, they stop working.

 

[scratchypants]

I thought this thread was going to be about something completely different.

 

[greeneyed]

5 hours...no sign...it may be a eulogy.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

All things have smoke inside them. It takes varying degrees of talent, skill, voltage, and current to release the smoke. If at first you don't succeed, try applying less talent and skill, more beer, and more power. Living things tend to harbor stinky smoke that burns the nose and attracts law enforcement officials. However, inanimate objects sometimes contain both smoke and amazing multi-colored light shows. Trial, error, and 240VAC are your friends. If you notice that the smoke is actually coming from you, try to relax. It shouldn't last long.

 

[bad coffee]

The hot wire to the outlet goes on one of the BLACK dots. Not the yellow ones.

In the case of your switch, I'm betting you have two brass screws and a nickel one. The nickel one is the one you want.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

It turned out that what I was trying to do was impossible even with beer. That's the first time I ever found a problem that beer could not solve.

 

[ChshreCat]

That's the first time I ever found a problem that beer could not solve.

Funny... I thought you said you were married.