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Installed a three-way switch backwards for 8 years before a homeowner caught it
I had been wiring three-way switches the same way since trade school, always putting the common wire on the wrong screw because my first mentor showed me that way. Last month while finishing a kitchen rewire in a 1970s ranch, the homeowner asked why the lights were acting weird and showed me a diagram that proved I had been doing it backwards all along. Has anyone else had a moment where you found out one of your earliest lessons was flat out wrong?
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reese5516d ago
Wait, hold on, the common is supposed to be on the dark screw?
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