3-way wiring kicking my butt (z-wave)

rscott

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I've got an Intermatic 3-way switch I'm trying to wire up. The wiring is causing me issues, I'm hoping someone can suggest a nice fix.

The switch requires that a hot wire be hooked up to it as well as a direct wire running to the load.

Here is the current wiring setup:

Box 1, standard switch is wired up with a black hot wire and a black/orange set of wires that go directly to box 2's switch.

Box 2, standard switch has one black wire going to the load, and the black/orange set that came from the first switch.

I *need* to have the z-wave switch wired up in box 1, yet without the load wire that's found in box 2, I can't get it working.

Any suggestions on how to make this work without resorting to moving the z-wave switch to box 2 (it's out of range of my z-wave network)?
 
What kind of "intermatic 3-way" switch to you have? Does it have a blue,black,white,red,ground wires? If so then the second diagram on this PDF would seem to fit.

Box 1)
Line(Black) to Switch Black
Neutral to Box2 Neutral AND Switch
box2 black/orange to Switch Red
box2 black to Switch Blue

Box 2)
Box1 Black to Load AND Switch
Box1 blackOrange to Switch
Tie Neutrals together
 
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