This seems like a silly question but if I want to use a two way switch as a one way switch do I run the hot leg into and out of the switch at the two brass screws opposite each other on the switch body or do I use the brown screw at the bottom of the switch body?
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Why not just swap it out with a standard switch?
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Just being lazy. Don't want to go to the store. Actually I was wondering why I bought these switches in the first place. They are 20 amp switches. I seem to recall that I couldn't find a standard switch rated at 20 so I just grabbed these figuring they would be OK.
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Yeah, they'll work just fine. I, personally would use one of the traveler terminals fro incoming hot and the common for switched. That way the other traveler would never be hot.
You do have to use one traveler and the common.
SamT
This isn't 12/3 w/ grnd rather 12/2 with grnd so all I have to do is run the hot leg through the switch so the question is to which terminal do I bring the hot leg into and from which terminal do I continue the hot leg to the destination?
In a switch, the line/load sides or direction doesn't matter. Just don't both to traveler screws.
But the important thing which or that I want to add is that in a single switch, the lever has to be up when it is on.
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I've gotten that one mixed up before. It seems to me hot leg into switch on the common terminal and out of switch to destination from either of the traveler terminals. Too easy, I was overanalyzing.
Just a little touch of safety. Run the hot leg to one of the traveler terminals so the other traveler terminal is never hot.
SamT