How would someone wire a dimmer switch with two hot wires and a ground at the end of a circuit.?
Question:The switch has two black wires and one green. Coming from the lights is a hot, ground and a neutral. can't seem to make it work. Not sure if being at the end of the line makes a difference or not
Answers:
I did this about a year ago in my kitchen (1st timer) I was told to keep colors to like colors. Green is for the ground or neutral. I have an older house & my wires in the wall were black, white, & exposed copper. So I put the black to black, white to white, & green to the copper. this worked for me. Otherwise it is possible that the new dimmer switch is faulty.
Aslo, you can buy a tester at any hardware store for a few dollars to see which of the two black wires is the hot wire. Electricity runs in a current , meaning that one line is hot leading the current in, the other is not it takes the current out.
Good luck.
The wires from the wall are a switch leg with no power, one wire goes to each of the wires on the switch, and the ground goes to the ground. If light doesn't work there is a problem elsewhere.
Switch the (black) wires around and/or remove the ground from any connection
If ALL you have in the switchbox is a black, white, bare/green. the white is supposed to be hot. Switchlegs back on the black. Doesn't matter to a dimmer which wire, hot or switchleg, goes to which. The GROUND does matter.
On a dimmer switch
black power
red load
white neutral
simple switch to replace hot comeing into the switch will connect to line black on dimmer
Other wire on switch (switch leg) will connect to red (load) on dimmer
white connects to white neutrals in box
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