Red Herring
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2012
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(Repost from my build thread, we got derailed with dog pics)
Just got off the phone with Bob, the inventor of the Ultra bilge switches. Super friendly and kind, he tried helping me as best as he could but I think I asked the wrong questions
Tried replacing the two broken electric field switches and ended up scratching my head with the shower sump pump.
It was wired to be on auto all the time and had two leads coming in. What I can’t wrap my head around is how I could use the Ultra in the same way without pulling new wires to the pump, which is far, far away from the switch.
Maybe doing a three way splice with the red auto wire and one of the brown switch wires would do it? Or just not use the brown wires at all, I tried this quickly without any luck yesterday.
So in short: can a three way switch be wired to be on auto all the time using the two leads I have from my Whale automatic field sensor switch?
Just got off the phone with Bob, the inventor of the Ultra bilge switches. Super friendly and kind, he tried helping me as best as he could but I think I asked the wrong questions
Tried replacing the two broken electric field switches and ended up scratching my head with the shower sump pump.
It was wired to be on auto all the time and had two leads coming in. What I can’t wrap my head around is how I could use the Ultra in the same way without pulling new wires to the pump, which is far, far away from the switch.
Maybe doing a three way splice with the red auto wire and one of the brown switch wires would do it? Or just not use the brown wires at all, I tried this quickly without any luck yesterday.
So in short: can a three way switch be wired to be on auto all the time using the two leads I have from my Whale automatic field sensor switch?