Wiring 4 gang box

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I habe done some renovations in my bedroom/bathroom and while doing so I had to remove the 4 gang box for the lights in my bathroom. Now I'm in the process of hooking the switches back up to the power and thought I got it done but I was wrong. 
So I have 4 switches;

Main lights- above bathroom mirror
Shower light
Bathtub light 
Heat lamps

Each switch should work individually and the heat lamps do I believe I hooked that switch correctly. Problem is switches 2 and 3 only work if switch 1 is on. Now they only thing I was confused with were the 3 sets of wires coming up through the floor from the breaker. I know one is for the heat lamps leaving 2. I thought the other 2 sets were for bringing the power up and the other is to continue the power back somewhere else since the 3rd set of wires are not hot when all breakers are on. So what I did was connected the 3rd set with the 2nd set so essentially it would continue the circuit to wherever it continues to. Obviously I’m doing it all wrong can someone please assist me

4 switches far left is heat lamp switch next is tub,then shower, and main light is switch on far right and below are the 3 sets wire and noticeable the 2 sets that are in question

main mirror lights and to the right is the tub light

ArchonOSX · Answer

There should be one cable that is the hot feed from the panel. All the others are switch legs to the equipment.

It sounds like you somehow fed switches 2 and 3 through switch 1.

All of the switches should be fed with the same hot from the main panel cable. All of the neutrals should be tied together through to the equipment. Each switch leg would then go to each piece of equipment after its respective switch.

Good luck!

Wiring 4 gang box

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