 Hey guys, here it is Chad Flynn. I am back. It's Monday I stayed true to my word and I stayed off social media a weekend well not off social media But I did not do a Facebook live which to be honest was kind of nice. It was nice taking a bit of a break I got out and hung out with the family and I'm sure you're not here to hear about that So let me talk about a couple things make sure you're popping by the Electric Academy comm all my video tutorials go on there I'm starting to add blog posts. I'm starting to actually add blogs to these videos that I'm doing So there'll be a little write-up on some of them the one I posted recently was how to get along with a co-worker You don't get along with so I posted that to the Electric Academy comm Make sure you go check that out and check that one if you go to the bottom of the homepage It's got a little blurb there about it or if you go to the blog section Also for you electrical apprentices out there who are struggling with electrical theory This is the place to go because I've got video tutorials that I post there as well as on YouTube So you'll want to check actually probably YouTube right now because I've got a whole backlog of videos that I've got to upload to the website But there's tons of stuff on there. I just did one on that Ohm's law and a DC series circuit So I went through Ohm's law bolt drop Kirchoff's law and Watt's law So I went through that all in the video check that out for sure. 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Also, if you go check out that learn more button, you end up getting subscribed to my newsletter So you get in the loop as to what's going on with the Electric Academy and all the new videos and stuff that I'm being posted All right today. Let's talk about this three-way switch. Here's the real reason why I brought this one up I got a call from a friend and all you electricians. You probably had this especially Rezi electricians You've had this call a friend says from the bottom of the stairs I can turn the light on I go up to the top of the stairs I can turn the light off and I'm like, okay, sure and he says but then when I go back to the bottom of the stairs I can't turn the light on So what do you think that is if you're watching this right now put in the comments what you might think that is I Can tell you exactly what the problem is and like I tell my students what you have to do is you've got to look annoyed You've got to open up that switch. You got to look really Pissed off you go out to the car for a while say that you're making a phone call come back in a couple minutes later Look really annoyed and then all you have to do is do one simple thing You're going to switch a traveler with a common and that's all it's happened is your traveler in common got switched I'm gonna show you I've got actually a little Diagram that I put up on this one you switch those two around and I would say 9.9 times out of 10 Your light's gonna work now. Here's the thing. I've got a little drawing here. Let me show you Let's do the old screen share Call this up here and Preview all right, so what I've got I've got two situations here as far as Let's see if I can get this guy out of the way There we go I've got power coming in I've got two different scenarios I've got power coming in here This is my light and I've got my switch three way switch down here and my three way switch down here now with three Way switches you obviously have three terminals you have this terminal down here, which is always black It's called your common and what a common is is you're bringing power to the comp to the switch Or you're taking power from the switch to the light All right Then over here We have our travelers and those bring power on either leg over to the other travelers on the other three way switch Now you need two three way switches to for this all to work then you have the common here So let's see this scenario and how I've got it played out Power we'll call this my home run power comes in on the black All right now what I've done is I've taken the black and I have meredied it which is what this is here to the white wire Now here's the thing that trips people up The neutral is always white or your identified wire always is white your white doesn't always have to be a neutral or identified wire It can actually be turned to a hot wire And sometimes you have to do that because what we're going to do here is we're gonna take the power down on the white So it goes down here on the white and we're bringing power to the three-way switch All right, then I'm taking power over on the two travelers Boom boom and then from this common this guy goes all the way through He marets on to the black here marets on to the black of the light and away you go So again the common is either I've got power either coming to the common switch Or the common is taking it to all the way to the light. Hopefully you're picking up on that All right now the common problem common problem because it is a problem with the common is This white and this white because some people times they'll get screwed up or they're not really paying attention. They'll get Tossed or not tossed they'll get switched So you have this one over here being you'll have your what supposed to be a traveler being on your common What's supposed to be common being on your traveler and that's what screws it up. All right, so that's scenario number one Now let's let me go up to here Go to window and let's look at scenario number two in This case what I've got is you just get this out of the way. I've got my power down here and My power is coming into my switch box. All right, so in this case What I've done here is I've taken my black, which is my hot goes to the common right away Then over here. I've got my common I'm sorry my traveler and a traveler on a black and a and a red black and a red So those guys go over to my travelers over here and then the common look at that goes right up to the light Now the white wire it gets all the way down through here. Now, you know, it's like a blue Obviously, I'm not going to be white. So I'm using the blue wire as my white wire So I should have mentioned that off the hop that white wires got a place through because this light here requires that neutral Right, it requires a return path. So it goes all the way through and splices onto that. That is Very common circuit It's the two most common actually as you have that one where you're bringing your power into your switch box or let's go back up here and You're bringing your power into your light and then dropping down So remember this is the trick with this one your white doesn't always have to be a neutral So I can pigtail the black onto the white take the white down as a hot All right, because the reason why we don't want to do it the opposite way is Because then you would have if this black wire was actually the white Let's say I swap these two around and I had the switch leg is white Then I'd have a white wire and a white wire and it came time to troubleshoot I wouldn't know which is my hot which is my neutral and it becomes dangerous So again, you want to splice on and take your white as a hot white never is your switch like all right let's get back to the screen here and Let's get me up on Here, let's see what's going on here get my eCamp story. I know this live is fun stuff All right, so that's my three-way switching Lesson I'm not going to go into the four ways could we be here forever similar idea though A four-way switch just has two sets of travelers going through it really super easy I am amazed by how many people don't understand how three-way switches work I teach this all the time I teach it in school But then I'm also showing other contractors and other journeymen out there how to do this All right, here's the end of the show One thing I want to mention is I thought I was doing a favor to people I was uploading my videos to different groups and I apologize for that I think I came across as a bit spammy and I did not want to do that I was just trying to get the word out about this Facebook live show And so I apologize to anybody that I pissed off with spamming all the groups I'm not going to do that anymore What I'm going to do is I'm just going to post this in my own groups And if you guys could do me a favor and share these videos that would be awesome pass them on to your friends I want to keep this going. I'm enjoying doing it. I think there's value out there Let me know if there's anything else you want me to talk about I've gotten some great requests over the past few days from people and I wanted to keep this going So I know I disappeared on the weekend I'm back this week and I know I said I'll probably do one every couple days that could change There's some awesome news coming down on Wednesday as well So keep that in mind you want to make sure you're joining the newsletter and that is all Make sure you hit that like make sure you download that online resource. Thanks a lot guys work safe out there I hope you're having a great day. I'm going to call us a quick see because it is now 10 minutes in and Netflix the defenders is on and I just got to go watch it. All right. Talk to you guys later. Have a great day Work safe