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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

This seems like the thread to ask. I am wiring up a two-way switch so that a person on either side of my bed can turn the bedside light on or off without having to roll over to the side that the light is on. Is... Is that gay?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is gay, yes, but since you're doing electrical work it's pretty butch. I'd say it makes you more lesbian than anything else. If you get some smart plugs to put them lamps on you can set them for voiced activation and regain some heterosexuality (but only the nerdy, techy kind that comes with big Reddit Mod energy).

If you want to be back into Normal Straight Bro territory you have to make the voice command for the lamps the sound of you railing a chick. It's the only way to square things up. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules, and homo math can be very complicated.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would honestly say that the smart plugs and general electrical work pretty much go hand in hand. All my very much heterosexual male acquaintances that are electricians love smart plugs. Smart plugs everywhere. Going to their homes is like coming to an experimental museum of "how can I just barely make this building up to code while nothing fucking works".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Honest to God, I love my smart plugs. Starting using them because my mom is bed bound, and can't get up to turn off lights and such... Eventually just put everydamnthing on one. It's just so fucking convenient... When the power doesn't go out (lots of brownouts here) and knock the Internet out.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It has to be three-way in order to not be gay sorry

[–] grue 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's funny because it's true (@[email protected] really does need 3-way switches for his application).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The naming is not consistent. As Wikipedia puts it,

This article follows usage in the United States. Readers in most other countries should read "two-way" or "SPDT" for the United States "three-way"; and "intermediate", "crossover" or "DPDT" switch for the United States "four-way".

The switches I'm using are marked with cute "ON/ON" labels which I suppose could be a metaphor for something.

[–] tetris11 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you rock it up to a switch, then as the wiring diagram shows: (N)ot gonna (L)ie, (MCB) My Curious Bro, a 3 way gang-bang is pretty gay.

Edit: on an unrelated note, if the neutral wire comes from the light rose and not the switch itself as shown above then you're gonna need a switch that handles live wires only. In the UK a lot of the newer houses now have the neutral wire in the switch, but before then many UK houses were very gay with the wiring.

[–] deltapi 1 points 2 days ago

Well, if there's only 2 switches then 2x 2-way is enough. Otherwise, it's (n-2)x 3-way switches plus 2x 2-way.

[–] kautau 13 points 2 days ago

Not if you say “no homo” every time you flip the switch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Lightstrip behind the headboard. Wireless switch in the middle. Problem solved, no homosexuality involved.

[–] DragonsInARoom 3 points 2 days ago

Only if you don't have a socket with Type-As built in