Hello, all.
I have an interesting question that hopefully has a simple answer!
I've purchased a "whole house ventilation blower" unit, that's being installed between two bathrooms... one being our bedroom's bathroom, the other located between children's bedrooms.
It's essentially a ventilation fan, but it has one large exhaust duct, and [up to] 4 smaller inlet ducts, that you can run ducting to several bathrooms in a single home.
When the unit is activated, it quietly exhausts from all the rooms at once.
What I would like to do is have a switch located in each bathroom (I'm only ventilating two rooms) to control the unit.
However, I'm not looking for standard 2-way switching like a light -
I would like either switch to be capable of turning the unit on... but only if both switches are turned "off" should the unit turn off.
I don't want to turn the ventilation on, get in my shower...
...and in the meantime, a child gets in their shower, and thinking they are turning the ventilation unit on, inadvertantly turning it off.
It's going to be remotely mounted (as designed), so hearing it may not be a factor.
Also, being a child's bathroom involved, I wouldn't want them to be able to play "games" with mommy or daddy, turning the unit off on them for spite or amusement.
Fortunately, the child's bedrooms and bathrooms are all in a new addition, just framed, I can run wiring however.
Unfortunately, my bathroom is already built and sealed off, and the switch that's in there has a single 14/2 coming from it... hopefully I won't have to break through the drywall that my wife so recently finished herself... I'd never hear the end of it....
I'm picturing a way to wire it in my head, essentially wiring to both switches in parallel, to this blower unit... is it this simple? Is that a method that conforms to electrical code (as this addition will be inspected obviously)?
I have an interesting question that hopefully has a simple answer!
I've purchased a "whole house ventilation blower" unit, that's being installed between two bathrooms... one being our bedroom's bathroom, the other located between children's bedrooms.
It's essentially a ventilation fan, but it has one large exhaust duct, and [up to] 4 smaller inlet ducts, that you can run ducting to several bathrooms in a single home.
When the unit is activated, it quietly exhausts from all the rooms at once.
What I would like to do is have a switch located in each bathroom (I'm only ventilating two rooms) to control the unit.
However, I'm not looking for standard 2-way switching like a light -
I would like either switch to be capable of turning the unit on... but only if both switches are turned "off" should the unit turn off.
I don't want to turn the ventilation on, get in my shower...
...and in the meantime, a child gets in their shower, and thinking they are turning the ventilation unit on, inadvertantly turning it off.
It's going to be remotely mounted (as designed), so hearing it may not be a factor.
Also, being a child's bathroom involved, I wouldn't want them to be able to play "games" with mommy or daddy, turning the unit off on them for spite or amusement.
Fortunately, the child's bedrooms and bathrooms are all in a new addition, just framed, I can run wiring however.
Unfortunately, my bathroom is already built and sealed off, and the switch that's in there has a single 14/2 coming from it... hopefully I won't have to break through the drywall that my wife so recently finished herself... I'd never hear the end of it....
I'm picturing a way to wire it in my head, essentially wiring to both switches in parallel, to this blower unit... is it this simple? Is that a method that conforms to electrical code (as this addition will be inspected obviously)?
