Entry-Door Light Switch Box — New 3-Way Installed
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Photo Details
- Date: June 19, 2026
- Time: 9:04 PM EDT (filename UTC
2026-06-20 01:04→ −4h rolls back to June 19 local) - Weather: Clear June night, ~60°F. Evening session in the still-unconditioned garage.
- Phase: 120V electrical rough-in — garage floor (bay) lighting 3-way
- Location: 309 E. 7th St., Clare, MI (service / entry door)
- View: 2-gang box at the entry door, both gangs now populated
Description
The entry/service-door 2-gang box with the new garage-floor-light 3-way switch installed — this is the far end of the 3-way pair, opposite the stairwell switch box documented the same evening.
Both gangs are now in use:
- Existing gang — exterior lights: the single-pole toggle for the exterior/soffit lights (SLS-installed), with the first Shelly 1PM Mini (installed 2026-04-22) behind it. Separate circuit.
- New gang — garage-floor-light 3-way: the toggle just added, the entry-door end of the bay-light 3-way.
The 12/3 from the stairwell box lands here: black + red are the travelers (red visible in the box), and the white is re-identified as the switched-hot return out of this switch’s common — it carries back to the stairwell box and up to the light (per Uncle Ed’s diagram). Because that white is consumed as a hot, this box has no neutral on the bay-light leg — which is fine under the agreed plan: the bay-light Shelly lives in the stairwell box (constant L+N), and this switch is just the 3-way input. Flipping it (or the stairwell switch) toggles all three light rows — confirmed working this evening.
Visible Elements
- 2-gang blue Carlon box on a stud at the service door (white door jamb at left)
- Two Leviton toggle switches installed (exterior-light SP + new bay-light 3-way)
- 12/3 landed; red traveler and re-identified white visible among the conductors
- OSB sheathing behind (Weyerhaeuser panel branding)