How to Wire a 3-Way Switch, The Simplest and Easiest Way Possible, Thoughts? #electrician

What's a three-way, dude? Three-way switch? Yeah. Three-way switch is a switch that you can control a light from two locations. Okay. And do you know how to wire one of those? I never actually wired one, but I need to learn. You know, that's so common because I could remember a guy challenging me when I was starting to be an electrician and he asked me about three-way wiring and I was like, uh uh It's actually really simple. >> you do it? >> Let's talk about maybe a stairway. Let's say that we want to put a light up in an attic. At the bottom of the stairs, we'll have one switch. At the top of the stairs, we'll have another switch, right? First thing we need to do is find out which is the line side, power in, like from the circuit breaker, and the load side, the actual light fixture. So, we look at these switches here. This is going to be my hot side. This is going to be my light fixture. What do we need to do to connect in between? Uh we have to put a 14-3 Romex. >> So, we need a three-wire, right? Okay. This is 14-3 Romex. Let's cut a little piece of this. So, basically, this is like the highway. This wire is considered the travelers, like we're traveling down the highway, right? That two traveler terminals here. Which one does the black go on? >> Black goes on the gold screw. There's two gold screws. >> Black goes on any gold screw. Correct. It doesn't matter which one you put it on. They're travelers, two lanes of this highway. Neutrals do not touch the switches. It will continue up into the light fixture. So, now you're going to attach your high hat or whatever you want to put here, right? And what happens is you're just selecting which lane you want for the power to go on. So, if the light is off for some reason, you want to just change the lane. You want to turn the light back off, just change the lane. That's all you're doing. So again, you have travelers and you have two points. >> I see. Helpful, right? Hopefully that didn't help you. Yeah, that was that was helpful. Thanks. >> You needed that. Yeah.