Wiring Diagram For 2 Way Switch. Connect the line brown wire coming from the light together with the 3 coreearth cable black wire in to the l1 terminal of the two way switch. Intermediate switch lighting circuits eu uk the engineering mindset.
The l1 terminals of both the switches are connected in phase. The way i show allows you to fairly easily add a second two way switch to an existing light switch by simply wiring them together in a certain way. How do you wire a two way switch.
When wiring a 2 way switch circuit all youre really doing is controlling the power flow switching offon to the load a light lamp outlet ceiling fan etc now a typical circuit will contain a 3 wire cable known as romex.
The com l 1 and l 2 are the three terminals of the two way switch. In this type of wiring the inbound white wire connects to the light fixture without any interruption. The cable consist of a black wire a white wire and a bare copper wire. For simplicity the earth wire is not shown in the above diagram.