01-11-2016, 10:17 AM
I have a strange need on a new electrical installation and am evaluating potential options. New workshop in the backyard will have a series of floodlights on the outside. I'd like to control the lights from either of two switches as well as via a remote from the house.
I can find remote control switches that turn a standard switch into a "3-way", but nothing that works with real 3-way switches to add the remote without diving into the world of automation.
The goofy idea I want to test with ya'all is to wire the lights from two separate SPST, normal, American, regular switches. I'd run power from the same circuit to each switch and would take the hots from each switch and land them on the same terminal at the light. Basically creating two separate paths to power the light. One of those switches would then become the remote controlled path.
Electrically, this doesn't seem like a problem. I'm not sure if NFPA addresses such a set up; and I'm trying to think through all of the what-if scenarios to find a dnager or problem with this type of dual path set-up.
I can find remote control switches that turn a standard switch into a "3-way", but nothing that works with real 3-way switches to add the remote without diving into the world of automation.
The goofy idea I want to test with ya'all is to wire the lights from two separate SPST, normal, American, regular switches. I'd run power from the same circuit to each switch and would take the hots from each switch and land them on the same terminal at the light. Basically creating two separate paths to power the light. One of those switches would then become the remote controlled path.
Electrically, this doesn't seem like a problem. I'm not sure if NFPA addresses such a set up; and I'm trying to think through all of the what-if scenarios to find a dnager or problem with this type of dual path set-up.
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