Installing smart light switches
OK, I'm going to try and be as descriptive as possible in this.... PLEASE HELP I have a single stand alone switch in my living room that turns on the fan. There aren't any other switches next to it, it's just the one. Once I take the plate off, there is a copper grounding wire, two black wires, and a red wire. When I put the little electric pen thing that beeps when it comes into contact with a current on the wires, it tells me that one of the black wires has a current going to it, and the red wire has a current going to it, none of the others. Once I flip the switch and the fan turns on, none of the wires have any current going to them anymore The SmartSwitch that I bought has a green ground wire, a white wire, a black wire and a red wire. I thought that one of the wires would have a live current and one would not, and then when I flipped the switch, both of them would have a charge telling me which one the load wire was. But the red wire threw me off and then none of them having a Current really threw me off. So I'm not really sure what to do next. Other switches in my house are done the exact same way that just control lights and not a fan as well. submitted by /u/bbush3 [link] [comments]
OK, I'm going to try and be as descriptive as possible in this.... PLEASE HELP
I have a single stand alone switch in my living room that turns on the fan. There aren't any other switches next to it, it's just the one.
Once I take the plate off, there is a copper grounding wire, two black wires, and a red wire.
When I put the little electric pen thing that beeps when it comes into contact with a current on the wires, it tells me that one of the black wires has a current going to it, and the red wire has a current going to it, none of the others.
Once I flip the switch and the fan turns on, none of the wires have any current going to them anymore
The SmartSwitch that I bought has a green ground wire, a white wire, a black wire and a red wire. I thought that one of the wires would have a live current and one would not, and then when I flipped the switch, both of them would have a charge telling me which one the load wire was. But the red wire threw me off and then none of them having a Current really threw me off. So I'm not really sure what to do next.
Other switches in my house are done the exact same way that just control lights and not a fan as well.
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