How to pull continiuous power off a 3 way wall switch?
I have a 3 way switch in my home and garage so I can turn on and off my garage lights from either one. My question is can I tap into the wall switch in the garage somehow to get continuous power to a garage door opener? I also have 4 lights in my garage ceiling, is there anyway I could draw continuous power from one of those? The picture below shows how my switches and lights should be wired, can someone show me how to run a constant hot wire to my door opener, thanks...
This is not a good approach as both the garage lights and opener are inoperable when the source cable's circuit breaker opens. Best to have a dedicated circuit breaker for the opener. If you don't care, you need to connect the opener AC wires to the black and white wires of the source cable at the first junction box, assuming the source cable goes directly to a circuit breaker on the other end.
I may have to get an electrician over here, that left most switch box with the power source coming to it from the panel box is the one in the house, all the wires are already in the wall behind the drywall, the only wiring I can get at is in the garage switch and ceiling lights.
Can I just run my 12-2 wire from my last wall receptacle in the garage up to the new electrical box for the garage door opener? All my garage receptacles are on one circuit and it should be like just adding another receptacle, it would be the easiest option for me.
Current code calls for the garage door to be on a GFI protected circuit.
Connecting the opener to the garage circuit should work ok. It's probably already GFI protected.
No big deal if it trips as you have an alternate way into the garage.
An AFCI detects the electrical signature of an arc, while a GFCI compares the current flowing in a HOT conductor to the current flowing in the NEUTRAL conductor associated with that hot. If the GFCI detects a difference of more than 5 Millsaps, it trips.
AFCIs are intended to protect against fire and GFCIs are intended to protect against shock.
I'll pull out the first receptacle on my garage circuit and put in a GFCI receptacle. Seeing that the garage door opener will be the last receptacle on the circuit that should make it GFCI protected, correct?
We have this exhaust fan that needs a new shutter. This one is a little different than the ones I've seen; usually the ones I see are flat. This one protrudes out a bit to fit over the siding. Am I using the proper terminology for searching; shutters, or is there another term of this?
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My house currently has a single light between 2 garage doors. Inside the garage is an electrical cable that runs right out the plywood/siding to the light fixture. The siding is redone and we have 2 lights, on the outside edge of the 2 garage doors (one on each side).
Do I just get a electrical box, then run splice romex to each of the new lights? Drill a hole through the plywood/siding, that's it?
I didn't know if there was a reason I should rerun that first wire to one of the lights and splice off of it. (May be more work.)
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