Ah! I thought it must be something like that. I don't remember much about things like colour, I was pretty young back then and I expect the switch might have been coloured anyway. I hadn't been aware of another since, rather thought they had disappeared completely.
I salvaged one interesting ancient switch from this old house, it has two push buttons, one for on and the other for off. It was among the switches I had to replace for that four way system, I put it into one of the new bedrooms to operate the florescent tube in the closet. While they may have been common at one time, this is the only one I have ever seen and the only one left in this old house when I acquired it. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:14 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] wiring a light switch. > Hi Dale. The little neon lamp was in parallel with the switch. When the > switch is closed there is no voltage across it and the neon lamp is out. > When the switch is opened the full line voltage is across it and the neon > lamp lights. The little neon lamp doesn't draw enough current to make the > big light glow. They have those switches in the hospital here in BG. > > Regards. > > Max. K 4 O D S. > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net > Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net > Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com > > To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 11:00 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] wiring a light switch. > > >> Unless this is knob and tube wiring there will very definitely be a black >> and a white wire in the switch box. Occasionally there will also be a red >> one if a three way switch and if a four way switch there will be two white >> and two black wires and the switch will have 4 terminals on it. Those are >> worth about 25 bucks, not that easy to find. I have one such arrangement >> here which I installed when I built my addition so that the lights on the >> stairs and landings can be switched from bottom and top on the original >> side of the house and outside each of the two bedroom doors on the landing >> on the new side. Took me about a week to understand how it is done before >> I could wire it. >> >> Reversing the wiring on a switch will not reverse which way it works. >> revolving the switch upside down so that the terminals go into the box on >> the left will. Most switches these days, maybe all I don't know have a dot >> which appears under the toggle when the switch is on or even the word "ON" >> and "OFF" which appear below and above the toggle depending on it's >> position. >> >> When I was a kid we even had a bathroom switch which lit when in the off >> position. The purpose was to assist someone finding it in the night I >> believe. I don't know how it worked or why it should be made to go off >> when the light was on. >> >> Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Skype DaleLeavens >> Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bob Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 11:27 PM >> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] wiring a light switch. >> >> >>> Only the black wire gets attached in a light switch. If you are running >>> new >>> wire, only cut the black one. If you are replacing a switch just undo >>> the >>> screws and put the wires back in the same place. The worst that can >>> happen >>> is the switch will work upside down. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Peawee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "BH" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 5:17 PM >>> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] wiring a light switch. >>> >>> >>>> Hi, is their any electrician out their that can help me on a basic >>>> wiring >>>> of a light switch? My step son is trying to replace a switch in his >>>> house. >>>> I >>>> just need some refresher of basic switch wiring. 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