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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: watson524 on November 27, 2010, 04:44:37 PM

Title: Wall switch with ground wire?
Post by: watson524 on November 27, 2010, 04:44:37 PM

Hi all,

Looking to install some wall switches (not 3 way, just regular ones) and I looked in where I need them to go and the existing switch has a ground wire wrapped around the green screw on the switch. Can X10 switches handle that? The one I just looked at (WS467) doesn't appear to be able to deal and I wanted to check.

thanks!

Title: Re: Wall switch with ground wire?
Post by: george536 on November 27, 2010, 04:54:22 PM

i have the same ground wire on the original switch, when i installed my x10 switch i wrapped the ground wire around one of the ears. This is my xps3 switch

(http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/8168/1020324.jpg)

Title: Re: Wall switch with ground wire?
Post by: watson524 on November 27, 2010, 11:34:52 PM

Thanks for the picture. How does that sit as far as keeping that "ear" away from the wall because of the copper going through it?