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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: jayman13 on February 02, 2011, 10:10:40 AM

Title: Neutral Wire question
Post by: jayman13 on February 02, 2011, 10:10:40 AM

I just installed a WS13A.  Where am I supposed to get wire to connect it to the neutral pack of wires.  What I did was cut the wire off a PLWO1-W that I wasn't using and used that as the wire to connect to neutral.  Is that OK?  It works, just don't want to burn my house down.

Title: Re: Neutral Wire question
Post by: Brian H on February 02, 2011, 10:13:03 AM

The neutral only has to supply the power return for the WS13A itself and not the whole load.
Other than being the incorrect color {not White}. It should be fine.

Title: Re: Neutral Wire question
Post by: jayman13 on February 02, 2011, 10:15:54 AM

Thanks.  In the future though where can I get wire to do this?  I'm a newbie so it may be something as simple as just going to Home Depot just haven't been able to find any wire when I looked superficially.

Title: Re: Neutral Wire question
Post by: Brian H on February 02, 2011, 11:44:50 AM

I am sure Home Depot and other home improvement vendors would have wire.
Though it maybe in prepacked length's.
When I did my XTB-IIR. I found a short piece at my local hardware store. They where going to prepacked boxes but still had a short piece from when they used a bulk roll.

Title: Re: Neutral Wire question
Post by: dave w on February 02, 2011, 01:21:11 PM

Quote from: jayman13 on February 02, 2011, 10:15:54 AM

Thanks.  In the future though where can I get wire to do this? 

Lowes and Home Depot in my area still sells wire by the foot. Menards only sells pre-cut, but you can get small rolls of white 14ga stranded.

Title: Re: Neutral Wire question
Post by: JeffVolp on February 02, 2011, 02:24:32 PM

Some of us have enough wire to start a phone company...

Jeff