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Author Three three-way switches and a lamp
heinrich_neumaier@yahoo.com

2006-10-29, 5:25 pm


There is an old puzzle that asks how to wire three three-way
switches in such a way that each of them can switch on or
off a lamp.

I cannot find the solution - is there a web page about this?

Heinz

Andrew Gabriel

2006-10-29, 5:25 pm

In article <1162157969.904215.301900@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
heinrich_neumaier@yahoo.com writes:
>
> There is an old puzzle that asks how to wire three three-way
> switches in such a way that each of them can switch on or
> off a lamp.
>
> I cannot find the solution - is there a web page about this?


Apparently, 615000 of them.

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Andrew Gabriel
Ken

2006-10-29, 8:25 pm

heinrich_neumaier@yahoo.com wrote:
> There is an old puzzle that asks how to wire three three-way
> switches in such a way that each of them can switch on or
> off a lamp.
>
> I cannot find the solution - is there a web page about this?
>
> Heinz
>

http://www.wfu.edu/~matthews/courses/p230/switches.html




heinrich_neumaier@yahoo.com

2006-10-30, 3:25 am


Ken wrote:
> heinrich_neumaier@yahoo.com wrote:
> http://www.wfu.edu/~matthews/courses/p230/switches.html



(1) This is NOT the puzzle about the three switches that you find
everywhere.
In fact, the wiring is not trivial.

(2) The link does not give the 3x3-way switch solution; only the easy
2x3-way plus 1xfour-way solution.

Heinz

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