3-Way Light Switches Explained!! Engineering Inside Light Switches and How They Work
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- How do 3-Way Light Switches Work? Also, let's look at 4-Way Switches, and Basic Light Switches!
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We use light switches every day, and yet have you ever seen the inside of one? In this video we open up 3 types of light switches: the basic light switch, 3-Way light switches, and 4-Way light switches. We also explore how they can be wired together to turn on one or multiple lights.
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Script, Modelling, Animation, Editing- Teddy Tablante
Twitter: @teddytablante
Voice Over- Phil Lee
Table of Contents:
00:00 - Intro on Light Switches
00:38 - Basic Light Switch
02:39 - 3-Way Switches & Multiway Switches
04:30 - 4-Way Switches
05:48 - Designs & Installation
06:51 - Outro
Erratum:
Animation built using Blender 2.90.1 www.blender.org/
Post with Adobe Premiere Pro
Wikipedia contributors. "Light Switch", "Multiway Switching" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited July, 2021
Music Credits
#LightSwitch #BranchEducation #MultiwayLightSwitch
This video may be a little simple, but the next set of videos will be on more complicated topics. If you want me to cover a particular subject let me know, it's always useful to hear what you're interested in watching!
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The day after this video dropped, but a day before I came across it, I literally opened up a couple 3-way switch boxes to trace my home’s internal wiring for an upcoming project.
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Love the hanging fixtures over the stairs. I think you mentioned pointing out inaccuracies was welcomed so...the ground wire on the switch wraps the wrong way. It should be clockwise so when tightened the wire stays in contact with the screw. That screw is always green. Commercial grade switches have a clamp! No wrapping.
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they just made a single video on the entire desktop PC, and multiple videos on several components.
@@NOT_A_ROBOT Tks!!! Of course I already saw it. I remember writing this comment but didn’t know in which video it was
Thank you. I have 3 switches in my house in setup like this. I always wondered how it worked when the switches could turn the light on in different positions
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I actually didn't knew that these were called 3 way switches. Thank you for making our lives easier sir.
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When we had electricity in school, my teacher asked me to make a circuit that controls a single lamp with 3 or more switches. The only solution i could think of was by using xor gates and I always thought you would have to use xor gates and relays to control a lamp with 3 or more switches.
I have an idea for a video.
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Next video series :::electronics in a modern car
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It can be represented by an XOR gate, great job.
I can appreciate that note 3 came before note 2
In the U.K. they are known s 2-Way switching. Any more than 2 switches, ie, along a corridor, is known as 2-way and intermediate switching. (All switches have two states.)
3-way switching is more commonly known as "Manual-Off-Auto" switches. They would be used to switch between timeclocks and manual operations.
Awesome, please when will the next SSDs videos will happened?
Would an XOR logic gate work for a 3 way switch too?
The circuit shown in essence IS a mechanical XOR gate.
@@nkronert yeah but i mean a non-mechanical one
@@ncolyer Fair enough - take an XOR logic gate, connect each of the switches (can be two way switches) to one of the inputs of the gate (the other contact of the switches is connected to ground, each input is also connected to the gate's power supply through a pullup resistor) and the output of the gate to a relay (basically another switch :-)). Relay and logic gate IC also need a suitable power supply. So, basically the mechanical switch construction is less complex, probably more reliable, and it doesn't use any power when the light is off, but otherwise - yes, it would work.
@@nkronert cool just need to make sure Coz I'm making minecraft house where mechanical xors are less practical
@@ncolyer believe it or not, but I have never had any dealings with Minecraft. But I'd assume that you don't need pull-up resistors nor a relay 😊
TQ
Hello there BE, may I suggest the next video to be about GPS tracking device, specifically speaking about the components that forms a GPS tracker (e.g. GPS Antennas, GPS receivers, the GSM module and how do they all work together?) For GPS receivers there are many different brands like Ublox and MTK which are all different prices, but I can't seem to understand what are the differences between them. Would be helpful if there is an actual video about it!
Thank you :)
Nice info,
Never saw 4 way switches, any idea where these are used and how these work?
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Your illustration showed electrons moving in a linear motion along the wire when the device is switched on, however, what you were illustrating were alternating currents and so the electrons should have been shown oscillating back and forth.
How does quantum spin work? I've never seen a video that gives me a good intuition.
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Can you do one on touchpad/dimmer light switches?
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sr make a video on how flash works inside IC or RAM chip
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With due respect i want to know that which software do you use for such animations. I'm going to start a new channel for Mathematics animation and suggest me which software is best for Mathematics Animation. I'll be grateful to you!
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Not next, but soon.
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Question, considering how close together the touchbars are, how do we make sure it doesn't cause an arc?
They are voltage rated, and likewise, higher voltage switches like 50kv have a different design.
also need higher load to make arc
I have gotten a good shock from sticking things inside outlets as a kid, I also spat in them before, got my lip nice and swollen from the high voltage damaging the tissue inside my lips. A real fun one was when I used a wet power tool and couldn't let go of it, so I started spinning my arm until the tool was forced out of my arm by the momentum. I have had my fair share of high voltage. It could probably have killed me if it had a diffrent path to ground then it did. funny enough, An electric fence actually hurt a lot more than getting zapped by 120 volts, mainly because I was holding a galvanized steel fence with one hand and touched the fence with the other, running the voltage across my heart. I felt rather messed up for a few minutes. In any case I wouldn't recommend it
Pls make one about smart switches that can be controlled by google or homekit
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Video about how actually data is stored in sd card because at the end of the day it is just some assembled pieces of metal how do they store data?
If explanation is similar to anomaly that there are something like black and white square which act as 1&0 then how is it so fast that a smartphone makes a change in it so easily
please how does hard disk drive (hdd) work or how does ram work
NEXT "HOW ROUTER WIFI WORK"!!!!!
Hello Branch Education! I'm sorry but this is a step back after all these awesome videos.
You seem to have a hard time finding new topics. I have an idea for your next project.
Can you please explain how hardware and software listen human sounds and translate it to text?
It's not a step back, I actually think doing short simple video's are an important strategy for the algorithm and to prevent burnout
@@allamasadi7970 Its Electronic 101.
In 4 way switching only one 4 way switch is required/enough, am I right?
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Electricians in the comments are gonna be pissed you wrapped that ground wire counter-clockwise at @2:30
Plz video abuot ram
Why u don't add videos on weekly basis?after 3 months!!
sir why are you not uploading videos
make a video on how google assistant understands what we say
Your content is excellent! But you are not so frequently connected with us buddy:(
Where does files go after it deleted
So basically it is a NAND gate