I have replaced several paddles in my new home with dimmer switches (PD-6WCL-WH). These have two solid black wires coming out of the back. Here's how all my switches look. For the dimmer switches I...
- Capped off the ground wire since I don't have ground wires in these boxes
- Connected one black solid wire on the switch to the blue wire from the wall
- Connected the other black solid wire on the switch to the two red wires from the wall (this is one wire looped around the terminal and back out... I snipped this to create two separate wires and connected both to one black wire on the switch)
Now I have a few basic switches I'd like to switch to CAS but don't need dimming. I bought a few on/off CAS switches (PD-6ANS-WH) and I'm seeing that the wires on the switch are different. Does this sound correct in terms of steps to connect this?
- Cap off the ground from the switch
- Cap off the blue from the switch (not a 3 way config)
- Connect black on switch to blue in wall
- Connect red on switch to reds in wall (again take the looped wire, snip in the center, connect all 3 wires)
- Connect white on switch to the existing whites capped off in the wall
Does that sound right? I was thrown off by the fact that two of the switch wires are stranded rather than solid and wasn't sure how to handle the neutral wire - do I connect the switch to all of the existing neutrals in the box?