Hi there everyone! This is my first post, thanks for being such an awesome community to join! I have a dog who went blind a few years ago and, as she ages, is getting noticeably more uncomfortable walking around the house. She finds herself lost even though she's well aware of the layout, and I think I have a solution. My idea is to create a "north star" for her. I want a noise to be emitted right near her crate and food/water. So I went online and found this DIY: [url=http://www.ryanmcginty.com/orgone/freqgentutorial.htm]How to make a Frequency Generator:[/url] Which is pretty fantastic. It's nearly exactly what I need to do sans speaker system. The problem is that I've never worked with circuitry or any sort of engineering like this. I'm an amateur motorcycle mechanic and amateur programmer though, so I'm confident that I can follow instructions :rolleyes::rolleyes: But I need 2 additions to it (that are interconnected). Perhaps my first prototype doesn't need this, but the final version absolutely needs a "food" setting. I need to be able to press a button, and have the emitter change frequencies to indicate that food is in her dish. I need that frequency to then revert back to the "north star" level after a constant period of time (15 min, whatever). What exactly would I need to do in order to repurpose that DIY emitter into what I'm looking for? Any advice would be hugely appreciated by both me and blind little Belle! Thanks, David

Greetings! I'm not well versed with use of 3-conductor AC cabling and have a question regarding it. I would like to install a spot light on either side of my home, and want each to be switched separately. I have an unused 14/3 with ground that runs from my attic to my garage already. I would install the switches for these new lights in the garage. QUESTION 1: Is it legitimate for me to run a 14/2 feed into the switch box and feed both switches and then use the 14/3 with black to switch one light and then red to switch the other light while the neutral wire and ground wire are shared for both new lights? QUESTION 2: Now I explained the above to one of the fellas working in one of the big box store electrical sections. He explained that using the 14/3 in an end-of-the-line switch configuration would be legit. He suggested feeding both new lights from my attic fan circuit, which is a 15A, 14/2 home run to the breaker panel. So, install a junction box in the attic and pull a 14/2 feed from the fan junction box to it, and then pull a 14/2 from each light to the junction box. Tie the neutrals together and the grounds together. Then pull the 14/3 to this new junction box and tie the red to the black feed, the black to black of one light, and then white (coloring it black with marker or wrapping with electrical tape) to the black of the other light. Then at the switches, connect the red to both switches, and then the black to one switch and the white (now colored black in some fashion) to the other switch. It would be great if either one of these options would be legitimate because running cable 3 stories is no easy task in my home with the wall layout. I had to open up a wall when running RG6 and CAT6, which has long been repaired and painted, so the thought of doing it again isn't pleasant! Only wish I had the foresight to run a few Romex home runs while it was open! TIA