Light switch in my room is operated using a relay (rated 24v-8v). It just like in the picture
I'd like to add another switch to the relay. How do I do add it to this system? I have another 24V transformer with a switch. If we have the
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Sounds like the GE remote control system. Is this the relay you have:
With a regular relay you could use two regular 120V 3-way light switches, but connected to the 24 volt.
With a double pole relay, you could use one pole to latch on the relay and use two normally open momentary push button switches wired in parallel to turn the relay/light on, then two additional momentary normally closed switches wired in series to the latching circuit to turn the light off.
Or use a certain type of toggle/switching relay and use two normally open momentary push button switches wired in parallel to turn the light on/off.
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Depends on what you are trying to accomplish.
You could just add a 2nd switch in parallel with the 1st switch. But then the 1st switch must always remain off for the 2nd to work.
You could add a second switch in series with the first, but now the 1st would always need to be on in order for the 2nd switch to work.
If you want both switches to function independently then you would need to change both switches to 3 way type. Hook the battery to the common terminal of the 1st switch. Run 2 wires (travelers) over to the 2nd switch. Run another wire from the common terminal of the 2nd switch back back to the relay coil.
Don't add any more voltage sources to the coil or you will likely burn it out.
Get a book on basic electricity concepts. Then draw out your circuits on paper.
Kevin
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Does not look like that at all. But that is not the point here.
Electrically speaking a similar situation would be if I have two transformers and connection the their hot wires and also their "cold" wires. The relay is allready connected to a transformer. Can I connect another transform there also? What would happen? It's not a short at least.
I've included a small picture to illustrate what I mean.
Your picture shows the two switches in series with each other. That won't work. You have to install the second switch in parallel with the first one, this way either switch will ratchet the relay one notch each time it's closed
Since he's using a ratchet relay, I'm guessing his switches are momentary contact, "guessing" being the optimum word
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Correct. Switches are only momentary contact.
Correct again. Looks like I have to do that. After following a lot of wires I still can't locate the original transformer.
You really don't need to get to the transformer, only the same two wires going to the first switch. You can parallel them to as many additional switches as you'd like
Thank good ness the OP is only dealing with the low voltage side of this circuit. If it was was regular line voltage they's be deadly (or dead!). Sounds like it is momentary contact switch which 'trggers' some sort of remote light control analog or semi solid state relay. A 'sort of' push button operation.
On 9/13/2008 9:53 AM John Smith spake thus:
RBM's correct: what you want, apparently, is a "wire OR" circuit (so called because either one switch or the other will operate the device). The way you have it wired is a "wired AND" circuit.
HOWEVER: if you're using transformers as power sources, there's an additional problem. If you use more than one transformer connected together, they have to be in phase, or they'll cancel each other out. You could get around this by rectifying the current to DC, but then you might have to use a DC relay instead of the AC one you have now.
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