Timeline for answer to Two switches on the same single hot wire by Ed Beal
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| Aug 8, 2020 at 17:03 | comment | added | Ed Beal | I find it amazing that all the comments repeat the answer with multiple votes on the comment but not the answer. | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 2:41 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | If they are simple dimmers that do not need neutral, you're set. You do not have Neutral at this box, at all - which is perfectly normal for older wiring with a switch loop. Eventually there was a code change that put an end to switch loops in new (code compliant) installs. You do still need to re-mark that white wire with a "hot color" (black red orange yellow blue purple or brown) - not gray or green. | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 2:03 | comment | added | dfitzgerald | @Ecnerwal I see, thanks for the clarification. That makes sense. So then is there any reason I can't convert the current setup to the one I described in my question? | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 1:49 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | To clarify, I hope, or muddy - Hot is hot from the power source. Switched Hot is from a switch (connected to hot) to a Load, and Neutral is from the other side of the load back to the power source (panel.) The current flows through hot, and switched hot, and the load, and neutral - but the "transition from hot to neutral" takes place at the load, NOT at a switch. | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 1:38 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | @dfitzgerald -- they're the switched-hots, so of course they won't show up as live when the switch is off | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 1:25 | comment | added | dfitzgerald | Are you sure the red and black must be hot? I don't detect any current running through them when the switches are off. | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 1:05 | history | answered | Ed Beal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |