Enbrighten Z-Wave No Neutral Dimmer review: OperationĪfter installing the switch, its use is pretty basic: press the top paddle to turn on the switch or hold it to raise the brightness, and accomplish the opposite by doing the same on the bottom. No amount of careful, patient wire arrangement and folding has, at least in my experience, managed to convince me I haven’t set up a fire hazard once the wires are out of sight, but this switch’s simple installation comes close, and that is worth a lot to me. If you only have LED, halogen, or CFL light bulbs in your house then Lutron Caseta is your only choice, but if your light bulbs are incandescent,then you can choose anyone according to your preferences.This combined with the slim housing of the dimmer makes for a switch that isn’t just easy to install, but brings with it peace of mind: any homeowner working on a budget will be quite familiar with the anxiety-ridden moment that is flipping the power back on (you did turn off the switch’s power at the breaker when you started, didn’t you?) and rushing back over to make sure there’s no indication of wires that oughtn’t touch having cozied up when you pushed the switch into the wall. One final thing you need to know is that among the smart light switches that don’t require a neutral wire are Eaton Aspire and Lutron Caseta. This makes the dimmers act as a neutral wire. The trick here is that by dimming the smart switch, the flow of power can go low enough to for the light bulb to be switched off, but stays sufficient for the smart switch to communicate with the hub. This feature is essential for the smart switch to work without a neutral wire. Some new switches have a dimmer feature in them. Now that you know why a smart light switch requires to stay up all the time, the missing piece in the puzzle here is to maintain an electric current all the time. How Do Some Smart Switches Work Without a Neutral Wire? Recently new smart switches that require no neutral wires were introduced to the market solving this problem, saving you a lot of money.
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How to Solve This Issue If Your house Is Old?īack in the day, the only way to fix this problem was to get yourself a professional who can reset the whole house wiring and install neutral wires. Smart switches can rely on the electric power coming from the neutral wire even if the light switch cuts the circuit off. That’s what makes a neutral wire an essential and integral part for the smart switches to operate. But in case of older light switches, once it’s turned off, it won’t deliver electric power to the smart switch too. That’s why they need a source of electric power flowing through the smart switches continuously. The problem with smart switches is that they need to stay up and running all the time, and that’s for them to be able to communicate with the hub they’re receiving the instructions from.
Why Do Smart Switches Require a Neutral Wire? The additional wire in such a connection is what we call a neutral wire. This means that regardless of the light switch being on or off, the electric power will be flowing through the neutral wire anyway. However, in the newly wired switch boxes, there’s an additional wire that’s connected to the power source and its power status isn’t related to the electric switch. In this case, the light switch completely cuts the circuit off when there’s no power running through the switch.
In this previous case, you won’t need what we call a neutral wire, and this is how old houses were installed back then. Read on to find out how! What Are Neutral Wires?Ī light fixture electric circuit can be completed if you connected a power source and a light switch with the light fixtures themselves through a wire. Make sure to check out our best smart light switch reviews.
However, the good one is that there are some smart light switches that don’t require a neutral wire at all. The bad one is that smart lighting switches require a neutral wire to work, and most of these older houses don’t have neutral wires installed.
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