Yes correct. It will be completely disconnected.By following your Diagram the switch I want remove will no longer have any connections as I am disconnecting all 6 wires going to it, correct?
NO, that is not correct - your lights and fan would both be on permanently if you did that (regardless of the other switch). (what you seem to have missed is that the 'top' and 'bottom' terminals in your picture are electrically connected). If you wait a few minutes, I will illustrate what I meant.@JohnW2 Can you please kindly confirm I understood you correctly?:
Yep - as I have also just drawn! You now have to choose between EFLI's method and mine@JohnW2 I believe this is what you meant...:
which switch is next to the fuse
I was afraid you might say that.Its the fan. So looking at the front of the switch from the left: Fuse | Fan | Light
Indeed. The fact that I was struggling to make sense of what was going on with the wiring at that pair of switches was one of the reasons I suggested leaving it all alone and doing as I mentioned, at the other pair of switches - at least that would mean that the OP would have the same functionality as whatever functionality he has now (at least, with set of positions of the switches which are to be removed)!I was afraid you might say that. There's something not right with the wiring, so I would advise you to go with your original proposal and John's wiring.
Again, indeed. In fact, looking back, I'm not certain that I necessarily understand correctly what he was saying about the current functionality when he wrote:Let us know if, after you have done it, there are any odd happenings such as the light only works when the fan is on, something won't turn off, or similar.
Did you mean when the switch gang for the fan is on? If so then yes. But as it is 2 gang you can have the fan on with no light and vice versa. But pressing the switch does switch it on and off. Hope this makes sense.
Quite so.Without the strappers,
this is what's left. .....Treating the switches as one way now,
I do not understand the arrangement. Were the light and fan the other way round then the fan would only work when the light was on, or be permanently off. Understandable and acceptable. .... As it is, the light won't work unless the fan is on - obviously undesirable.
I'm not convinced that it would necessarily make things much more understandable, but is it not possible that your "Wire X" is the permanent L feed and that the fuse is in the feed to the fan? (although that would probably only make any sense if it were a non-timer fan).Any other ideas?
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