Pilot Light Switch No Neutral

Wiring instructions for a pass seymour 692 series combination switch pilot light.

Pilot light switch no neutral.

Switches switch boxes on the other hand don t need a neutral because they are just an interrupt spliced into the circuit. There are some illuminated switches that operate without a neutral. See the electrical wiring instructions for the specific type of switch that you have purchased. Then from the light bulb another loop goes to the switch.

Usually that will be the white wire or vice versa. In fact one of the ways to address the issue of a light switch box that doesn t have a neutral is to fish one up from a nearby outlet. In either case what you ll need is a z wave switch with no neutral wire required. The hot from the source light to the switch and the wire from the switch to the device to be switched.

The case that everyone refers to when they say no neutral is when the line voltage comes to the light bulb first. A light switch that has a little pilot light on it to indiacate that the lights are on in a location such as the basement so you don t have to go down stair. The lutron caseta smart light switches will work in homes that don t have a neutral wire in the switch box. Some black wires carry the return current too becoming a black and white wire in one basically.

These smart switches will work with even older homes and switch wiring that does not have. Most pilot light switches require the power source to be at the switch box such as your application. Sometimes there s no neutral wire at a switch location if the power is coming through the light fixture. I had a switch by cooper wiring devices the decorator switch that did not need the neutral for the pilot light.

Option 1 run a neutral wire if you want to use smart switches and don t have a neutral wire in your switch box you can hire an electrician to run a neutral wire between the light fixture and the switch. This is called a switch loop. But this would create significant additional resistance in the current flowing through the line to the main load. A smart switch can simply tie into the white neutral wires to complete the circuit and get a source of power to keep the radios in the switch working at all times.

This is shown in the diagram below.