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Posted by aptpupil on April 19, 2008, 7:09 pm
thanks to all who didn't have a smart ass answer. it makes sense that the
electronics within the device would need a neutral to be powered, so this
illuminates (ha ha) everything for me.
-c
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>>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
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> The hot (black) and neutral (white) are to power the electronics in the
> switch for the sensor. The red wire is switched and usually goes to the
> light and then the other wire from the light goes back to the neutral.
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