Installing new decorator light switch.
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07-12-14, 12:11 PM
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Installing new decorator light switch.
Hello all,
I am trying to replace an old automated switch that controls the outside front light with a manual decorator switch. When I pulled the old switch out I found the wiring in a gaggle. There is a blue wire wire-nutted to a black wire, a black wire, and a red wire all connected to the old switch. There doesn't seem to be a ground connected to it at all, and this thing has been hooked up this way since we bought the house 5 years ago. Inside the wall box it looks like there is one wire bundle of ground wires and they're clamped off. These ground wires look like they are separate from the other wiring, like a they are not running with any white or black wires. I have no idea where to go from here. Here's a pic.
I am trying to replace an old automated switch that controls the outside front light with a manual decorator switch. When I pulled the old switch out I found the wiring in a gaggle. There is a blue wire wire-nutted to a black wire, a black wire, and a red wire all connected to the old switch. There doesn't seem to be a ground connected to it at all, and this thing has been hooked up this way since we bought the house 5 years ago. Inside the wall box it looks like there is one wire bundle of ground wires and they're clamped off. These ground wires look like they are separate from the other wiring, like a they are not running with any white or black wires. I have no idea where to go from here. Here's a pic.
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07-12-14, 12:23 PM
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That bundle of wires coming out of the bottom right of the box are the ground wires crimped together. It also seems like they all come out of the same wire sleeve, which I have never seen.
