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Question for an electrical dummy (me).
Replacing a single switch in my boy's bathroom. He leaves it on constantly so I am looking to replace it with a motion detection switch. Switch I am replacing is a simple 2 screw switch. The motion-detection switch has 4 wires.
The blue wire I know I won't use because that is for a 3-way switch which I am not doing. As an aside, can I simply cut this wire off? Will the exposed wire be hot? Do I need to tape this up?
There is a black, red and green wire on the new switch.
Question is how do I swap these switches out?
The old switch had 2 black wires hooked to it. I believe I hook the new switch to these 2 black wires via the black and red wire on the new switch?
Green is ground but what do I run the green switch wire to? The bundle of bare wires in the box?
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Sounds like you got it. and yes, a jumper from the new switch to the bare wires in box.
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Thanks guys. That's what I thought, but I prefer to err on the side of caution if I am not certain, particularly with something like electricity.
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