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Posted by RBM on April 19, 2008, 12:35 pm
>i have a couple single pole switches for which i'd like to have a motion
>sensor switch instead. the current switches have two wires connected: a hot
>coming into the bottom and then the switched hot going out of the top to
>the light bulb. when i looked around at the motion sensing switches it has
>four wires (black, red [for the load], white and green) and says it
>requires a neutral. i've never come across a switch that has a neutral
>hooked up to it. what am i missing here?
> tia,
> c
Some of these switches require a neutral to power the device itself, some
don't. For example RAB makes a model LOS 800 occupancy sensor which requires
a neutral, and a model LOS 1000 , which does not : Here's a link:
http://www.prolighting.com/rabocse.html
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>sensor switch instead. the current switches have two wires connected: a hot
>coming into the bottom and then the switched hot going out of the top to
>the light bulb. when i looked around at the motion sensing switches it has
>four wires (black, red [for the load], white and green) and says it
>requires a neutral. i've never come across a switch that has a neutral
>hooked up to it. what am i missing here?
> tia,
> c