[quote=“oTi@, post:10, topic:172438”]Both are travelers (in a traditional 3-way).
Sounds like you have power and load in the box where you have the primary. By just hooking up the primary to line and neutral, the primary would be powered and the LED should toggle as you toggle the switch. You can (then) also hook up the load; light should toggle on/off. Then try to get the aux wired in.
(From your description it sounds like you have the white connected between aux and primary, expecting it to be neutral, but the (additional) connection to neutral is actually missing.)[/quote]
hi, i installed 2 GE45609 as a standalone successfully. please i need help again in this GE 3way connection. here is the situation in my existing standard 3-way switches:
SWITCH 1: white, red and black (load). as you said, the white and the red are both travelers. this switch is not connected to the line (hot). i think i can install the primary here (this is a 3-gang box) but not so sure.
SWITCH 2: this switch is alone it a single box; has no load wire but has a hot wire connected to it; has a red and white wires which you said are both travelers.
can you please advice me if my plan will work:
in SWITCH 1, i will install the primary, jumper from the bunch of hot wires and connect it to the line terminal of the switch. jumper or tap from the bunch of neutral white wires and connect it to the neutral terminal of the switch. the existing load wire to the load terminal; the red to the traveler terminal of the switch and the white traveler i will connect it to the neutral terminal of the switch (to one of the holes in the back of the switch).
in SWITCH 2, i will connect the white (originally traveler but now a neutral), to the neutral terminal of the switch, and the red to the traveler terminal. as you can see, my problem now is the existing black (hot) wire was not used at all. what do i do with this wire. can i just cap it with a wire nut. PLEASE HELP. thanks and will sincerely appreciate your input (anyone).
You should be able to just cap the “line” (hot) wire in the second box but this may put the circuit on a different breaker than you expect it to be on, since you are using a different Load bundle…
I spoke too soon. I had one early mortality on a GE switch. Worked fine for about a week, and now doesn’t respond to Z-Wave. Also, the front-face LED never worked.
EDIT: Disconnecting/reconnecting it, then exclude/include seems to have fixed it ---- INCLUDING the front-face LED. So it went from never-on to on-when-light off, as per default. This is surprising, and may indicate there’s a parameter value that does “no LED”. Just weird.
All I can think of is that I had this switch previously associated with a Sylvania controller, and didn’t correctly exclude it before Vera?
hi, the primary is now working but the aux 45610 is not.
in the primary 45609, i tapped from the white bundle, and connected it to the neutral terminal. i did the same thing with the black bundle and connected it to the line terminal. i connected the black load and the red traveler to the respective terminals of the 45609. and lastly, i connected the original white traveler to the neutral hole at the back of the 45609. i went to the other switch and connected the red traveler and the white (now neutral but originally white traveler) to the respective terminal screws of aux 45610. i used a tester and the red traveler in the aux has power. i capped the hot black wire with a wire nut and unused as i mentioned in my earlier post. the aux is not doing anything. can you please give me some clue as to what i did wrong in the aux hook up. the aux as you know has only 2 terminals (neutral and traveler). thanks.
hi, do you mean that you used 2 GE45609s for your 3-way, instead of the 45610/45609 3-way kit? my aux 45610 does not work; it does not communicate with the primary 45609. the primary works fine-turns the light on/off. can you clarify. if it works, i will do the same.
hi, do you mean that you used 2 GE45609s for your 3-way, instead of the 45610/45609 3-way kit? my aux 45610 does not work; it does not communicate with the primary 45609. the primary works fine-turns the light on/off. can you clarify. if it works, i will do the same.[/quote]
i got a new 3-way zwave kit from amazon replacing the first one that i bought (thinking that the first aux GE45610 was defective) but to no avail. so i re-installed the non zwave 3-way switches for now. this is so frustrating. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. any inputs/thoughts will be sincerely appreciated.
I just had the same problem last night on the install of a brand new 3-way kit. I bought two of them so I had some I could play with. THe problem I was having was the “10” switch would not communicate with the “09” switch at all. I tried a different “10” switch form another package and same result. Then I switched out the master “09” switch and everything worked fine. Sounds like the “09” switch was defective as a 3-way switch but worked fine as a single switch…
A big newbie thanks for the info in this thread. Finally got my 3 way working with thee info here but wanted to say that I had to exchange my switch for a new one as I had fried the first set after all the “testing” trying to get it to work. So, if you’re struggling and think you have the wiring right, consider that maybe the switch was already fried from prior (possibly improper ;)) wiring.