I have a light fixture positioned over the kitchen table in my house. It is controlled by two switches at opposite ends of the room. I recently installed a dimmer switch for some ambiance leaving me with one dimmer switch and one regular switch controlling the light. The dimmer switch is a regular dimmer - there is no on/off switch activating it, you just slide it up and the light progressively illuminates.
I got the dimmer switch working but I have since found that whenever I flick the regular switch on (whether or not the dimmer is on) the light fixture and everything else on that circuit shorts out. My mini-solution is quite simple; we don't touch the switch.
You hooked up the traveler wire up wrong on a Three Way switch.
Unlike single pole switches one wire is hot and the other is not if the switch is off. But with three way switches there is two traveler wires, and with two three way switches one wire is always hot. The hot wire is shorting out to the metal electrical box or some other meatlllic peice. It is going back to the electrical panel on the ground or neutral wire.
Never have a hot wire electrically connect to the neutral or ground wires.
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