Ge Low Voltage Switching System

These and other new low voltage switches including pilot light and raise lower switches pictured at left will work with your old ge relays and old bryant relays.

Ge low voltage switching system.

Shop for replacement low voltage light switches wall plate covers relays for older homes at kyle switch plates your low voltage experts for vintage home lighting systems by ge remcon touch plate bryant sierra. If you buy a new switch you will need a new. They were being sold on ebay but now they re only at switch hits. The new style ge rs2 switches are the currently manufactured replacement switches for both a bryant and ge low voltage system.

This relay at the light fixture has the line voltage and turns the light on. Shown here is a modern ge rr 9 low voltage switching relay that can be used to replace older ge rr 2 3 5 relays. They will not however fit your old style switch plates. Hi everyone i have recently purchased a home that uses a circa 1970 s ge low voltage lighting control system.

Touch plate goes back to the mid to late 1940 s. Low voltage electrical wiring was installed in some homes beginning in about 1946 s. Here we describe replacement switches or relays that can be used to repair older low voltage switching systems in buildings or to install new low voltage control systems to switch lights receptacles motors. This system was popular and was installed in many homes between 1960 a nd 1985 and it continues in use today often in the form of 12 v low voltage lighting and downlight.

It consists of 24v power being run from a transformer at the electrical panel to various wall switches which are momentary on off switches that in turn switch a relay installed up at the light fixture. The low voltage ge switch at left was provided courtesy of reader jj and discussed below.