How To Wire A 4 Way Switch With 2 Lights

Run your cable from the first light to the second light.

How to wire a 4 way switch with 2 lights. This circuit diagram shows wiring for a 4 way circuit with the power source at the light fixture and the switches following. At sw1 it s spliced to the white wire running to the 4 way switch box where it s spliced to the white wire running to common terminal on sw2. Wrap a piece of black electrical tape around each end of this white wire to indicate that it is a hot wire rather than a neutral wire. Connect one wire to the first switch in the box and the second wire to the other switch and connect the black wire from each of the lights to the other terminal on its respective switch.

At sw1 this marked white wire is spliced to the marked white running to the 4 way switch and at the 4 way it is spliced again to the marked white wire running directly to the common terminal on sw2. Some 4 way switches may have the in and out pairs opposite each other rather than top and bottom. There are two methods of making 2 way switching connection one is 2 wire control and another is 3 wire control. How to wire a 2 way lighting circuit in this video i show how to wire a light that can be turned on and off with two different switches.

Connect the black wire from the power supply to the white wire of the cable connected to the switch. I use simple elect. See tables 314 16 a b. A two wire cable c2 is run from the light to the first switch sw1 and a 3 wire cable runs between all the switches.

This white wire is wrapped with black tape to mark it as hot. Attach the black and white blue traveler wires entering the 4 way switch box to the in terminals often the top terminals on the 4 way switch black on the left top pole and white blue on the right top pole. Two way switch can be operated from any of the switch independently means whatever be the position of other switch on off you can control the light with other switch. With 2 lights it is spliced with the white wire running to the switches.

The white or neutral wires bypass the switch so the one coming from the power source and the one from the light get spliced and capped in the box. How to wire 2 way light switch in this video we explain how two way switching works to connect a light fitting which is controlled with two light switches. I have a diagram for this light switch wiring method on my 3 way switch page. Connect the black wire from the switch to the black wire from the first light and the black wire coming from the second light.

I did not include grounding conductors on the 4 way switch wiring diagrams in order to keep them simple.