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How to Wire a 4 Way Switch

www.AsktheBuilder.com host Tim Carter demonstrates how to wire a 4 way shift and where to place a 4 way switch in a circuit.

What is the best way to daisy chain 4 switches?

May 19, 2006 by jcurtist | Posted in Computer Networking

I have 4 3com switches here that are booming to be at the core of our network. I'm trying to figure out how I would daisy chain them together. Do I take one main switch and hardly link to the other three? Or.. Do I just go from one to the other straight down? The first thing I tried caused a redundant loop and the packets went bats.. It was funny =)

The twist was detected because the packets where leaving one port on the switch and coming back in on another. If you are going to connect switches together, you have some options. I dont exhort that you daisy chain because you will more than likely cause a bottleneck on cable that runs from switch to switch. If the whip does not allow for them to be connected by the backplane (special connections in the back of the switch) then I would connected in hub and spoke original (like a tree). You start with a root switch and plug the three switches into the root switch, one in each mooring. As the root switch's ports are filled up, then you move down to the next layer and continue the same process. Some switches allow for trunking so that you can in fact combine several ports to create one "virtual" trunk line to carry the evidence. That way you dont bottleneck on the port.

Make sure you can turn on the Spanning Tree Protocol so that if you develop a loop the future, the switch can automatically shut down one of the ports. This is to prevent you network from comming down in the at any rate of a loop.

when the 4 way switch is up the 3way switchs work with light, down & the light & 3way switches don't work?

Feb 06, 2007 by Allan C | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)

the entering wires to 4 way switch are attached to one color screw & the out going wires are attached to the other color screws of the 4 way rechannel. the black hot wire is attaced to the dark screw of the first 3 way switch and also to the last 3 way switch.
please help,

please don't keep one's ears open to apprentice stretch. pictures speak a thousand words. go to the link posted by your other responder, or call a competent electrician, it'll be a quick fix if all the wires are in place. good luck

How to wire 2 3-way, and 1 4-way light switches.?

Feb 07, 9537 by Addie | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)

Here is the setup:
4-way inconsequential switch has 2 white wires on the 2 brass screws, 2 black on the 2 black screws.
3-way rechannel has 1 white wire, and 1 brown wire on the 2 brass screws, 1 black wire on the perfidious screw
3-way switch has 1 red wire, and 1 brown wire on the 2 brass screws, 1 black wire on the awful screw.

The light just won't turn on.. any help?