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I'm hoping someone who knows, can lead me down the path a little.
I've got these two 3 way switches on a light circuit spanning two rooms. As in you turn on one switch, and the lights in both rooms turn on. My guess is it was one long room, until a wall was put up in the middle.
I want to eliminate the two light, three way switch circuit. And replace it with two separate circuits, on separate single pole switches. Rooms a and b, with circuits a and b.
So,
I roughed in a new 14/2 circuit to a new box to hang a fan in room a. I pulled the switch out of the wall, and identified the hot leg with my multimeter. I identified my traveler wire (white), and put it aside. Into my single pole switch, I attached the hot leg, and I attached my new circuit to the other side of the switch. My white wire from the new circuit, I tied into the common. The traveler is still set aside.
Now in my mind, this should have worked. But it don't. I took my multimeter and clamped the black wire to the hot leg. With the meter set on 200v AC, I touched the red lead to ground. I got 121v. I touch the red lead to common, and I get nothing. So is the common wire back to the breaker box open? What am I missing here?
I've got these two 3 way switches on a light circuit spanning two rooms. As in you turn on one switch, and the lights in both rooms turn on. My guess is it was one long room, until a wall was put up in the middle.
I want to eliminate the two light, three way switch circuit. And replace it with two separate circuits, on separate single pole switches. Rooms a and b, with circuits a and b.
So,
I roughed in a new 14/2 circuit to a new box to hang a fan in room a. I pulled the switch out of the wall, and identified the hot leg with my multimeter. I identified my traveler wire (white), and put it aside. Into my single pole switch, I attached the hot leg, and I attached my new circuit to the other side of the switch. My white wire from the new circuit, I tied into the common. The traveler is still set aside.
Now in my mind, this should have worked. But it don't. I took my multimeter and clamped the black wire to the hot leg. With the meter set on 200v AC, I touched the red lead to ground. I got 121v. I touch the red lead to common, and I get nothing. So is the common wire back to the breaker box open? What am I missing here?