Multi way light switching

[littlespark]

Just an observation.

Staircase serving 5 storeys….. how to turn on the light from any floor?

See saw type rocker switch set into the ceiling and two really long bits of rope.

I thought it was a pulley system for the servants of old to take heavy objects up to the guest bedrooms…. So I pulled a rope, and the light came on.

And yes…. I know it can be done with quinetic nowadays.

 

[7029 dave]

Parallel all the switch wires

 

[snowhead]

I would imagine one would have to have called for a servant to carry out such a manually intense procedure..

 

[buzzlightyear]

A rope ladder to put a flame on the candles has you go up it.

 

[westward10]

It is a great piece of ingenuity.

 

[7029 dave]

It is a great piece of ingenuity.

Manual parallel lol

 

[mainline]

Why use 2 ropes when all you need is one.

 

[Moley]

Why use 2 ropes when all you need is one.

Incase 1 rope snaps?

 

[7029 dave]

Why use 2 ropes when all you need is one.

It aint a pull cord FFS main lol

 

[telectrix]

2 2 way switches and 3 intermediateas.

 

[mainline]

It aint a pull cord FFS main lol

It's a wonder health and safety doesn't see it as a concern

I wasn't thinking about one from tool station ffs

2 2 way switches and 3 intermediateas.

Or one light sensor

 

[pirate]

Quinetic...classic application...but what a great system there!

 

[7029 dave]

2 2 way switches and 3 intermediateas.

Nah I would have that set up on time lag switch all parrelled up, just keep pushing the button on each floor lol

 

[mainline]

How about infra red beam instead of the hanging rope

 

[buzzlightyear]

How about infra laser beam instead of the hanging rope

That will stop them in the tracks.