Hello, and with the disclaimer that I’m no electrician whatsoever,
I had this three-way light switch in my room, which only controlled one light - and its pilot lit when the light was set off. Unfortunately I had to break the wall it was onto because the neighbor had water issues. Left the switch connected to the wires as I thought it wasn’t necessary to unplug it, but the person that fixed the wall unplugged it nevertheless.
The thing is I can’t remember how it was plugged. I can plug hot and ground (at 0 and 1, or 0 and 3) so I can turn on/off the light, but the pilot won’t work in any case.
Here’s a picture of the back of the switch, the numbers at each connector and the little diagram (tried to recreate it at the right side) that is engraved there. Not even sure why it’s 0, 1 and 3 but no 0, 1 and 2 - nor what the little “m” means:
So how can I connect this so the pilot works as before (it’s lit when the light is turned off?) I’d really appreciate any help about this from any electron wizard around here.
AC house wiring switches can be a bitch I hope you figured it out. God help you if your light is controlled by two seperate switches. I’m so glad I built up my DC electrical system from scratch its so easy to run two wires with power flowing in a relatively straight simple way.
Thank you, @Natanael@slrpnk.net helped me figuring out how to do it - and yes, definitely those aren’t tasks for noobs like me. But at least I got to learn something new