I have done everything I can think of, and nothing. I have engaged Bill, and he gave me help, and Larry's well known 3-way drawing. Nothing.

The only thing that I have left is this drawing putting my situation in pictures. Please take a look at the link below and see if there is anything I am missing. I am willing to try anything, since everything else is the PCS system works fine. I even had Bill send out a new slave because I thought that it might be that. Please help!

[Link: fbcem.f2s.com]

You need to indicate which wires are bundled together in a single cable. Standard 14-2 or 12-2 romex would have one black, one white, and one unshielded conductor wrapped in a single cable. 14-3 or 12-3 romex would have one black, one white, one red, and one unshielded in the one cable.

You need to isolate which cable is bringing power in from the panel, which cable runs between the two boxes and which cable runs from one of the boxes to the fixture.

I had a similar probelm years ago at my old house trying to figure out a 4 way switch. I was in the process of replacing the old ivory switches with new white ones. I got mixed up with all the wires and could not figure out one from another (but had no trouble tripping breaker!). What I finally ended up doing was opening up the breaker and pull all swithces out so all the wires were seperated. Then I took a meter with a long piece of wire hooked up and checked for Continuity for each wire from box to box. Then with the help of a wiring diagram I was able to hook them all back up correctly.In your case you may have to also remove you hot wire from the breaker. Maybe this would help in your situation as it sounds like you just don't have the wiring in the right order.

Hey agrennan.......... did you ever get them hooked up correctly??

As a Dealer we rarely spec in Slave switches because some houses wont allow for them, The best thing to do and what we do 99% of the time is to use an inwall controller, plus with this option, you have the additional option of using a multichannel inwall controller to do pathways, etc... Just something to think about

skipo...I'm still working on it. Actually, time has not permitted much lately, but it's on the agenda for this weekend. Bill has been really good about it, and has offered to draw up a diagram.

The in-wall controller is a neat idea, but I'm worried that if I don't have the right wires to begin with (missing a white apparently), that it might not work either. Thanks to all for the suggestions, and keep em coming.

Here is what we do with our Inwall controllers, and also the reason we use the controllers, if its a slave switch by itself, most of the time you wont have 110v to power the slave as well as a traveler wire. So we documment what we have in the slave box (most of time its a ground, neutral, load, incoming switched lead, and a traveler). Here is what you, connect your incoming switched lead, and your load wires together and wire nut them. Then you take your traveler wire and connect it to the hot side