Unscrew the switch plate cover. You want to tie together the one traveler you are now using and the black to the load and you remove the switch.
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Eliminating a 3 way switch. How to remove a three way electrical wall switch step 1. Two switches are 3 way and one switch is a 4 way. Eliminating three way switching adding new lighting removing old separating 2 neutral wire circuits re routing 2 power circuits making holes in walls ceilings fishing new wire for new lighting. Regarding the 3 way switch. The goal is to utilize two 3 way switches for the ceiling light. Turn off the power to the outlet at the fuse box or breaker panel.
I dont need two switches for this particular switch circuit and id like to eliminate one of them. I would like to completely eliminate one of the 3 ways from the circuit. The problem is that the neutral is not located where i do want to install the smart switch. The current flows from the first switch to the second switch over one of two traveler wires depending on which way the old first 3 way switch was thrown. I would also like to use the existing 4 way as a 3 way if that is possible unless replacing it with a 3 way switch is recommended. Use the voltmeter to test that the power is actually off at the outlet.
Thats a big no no. Remove the switch from the switch box. 3 way switches in my house were wired with the load light fixture in the middle and so i have a neutral and common with two travelers at only one switch location and only two travelers and a common wire no neutral at the other location. You can not just tie off and bury the box in a wall. Make sure the box being removed does not feed that overhead or other lighting circuits. If it does youll need to.
One of those two travelers will now be used to carry hot from the load side of your new switch. You will have to find the 4 way remove it and rewire the remaining 2 into 3 ways. At the second three way switch there should be the two travelers red coming into it and the load going to the light black.
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