What is meant as a way in a MEDIUM switch or switchgear?

[Redskinsdb21]

What does a way mean exactly? Does it mean for each direction power flows? If so, why 3 ways? 6 ways?

 

[dpc]

It's the number of connections or taps.

 

[RRaghunath]

3-way switch allows the incoming power to be extended in two different paths. Including Off position, three way switch thus has three positions in total.
Same can be extended to 6-way switch as well.
The 'way' doesn't have any relation to direction.

R Raghunath

 

[davidbeach]

A 3-way switch is something used at low voltage and for that there's one inlet and two outlets (or vice versa at the other switch). For medium voltage dpc has it; the number of ways are the number of simple bus connections to the single bus in the device.

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