Divine Light Switch 2 Black Wires

Connect either of the other two black wires to the other screw on the switch.

Light switch 2 black wires. The white wires are wire nutted together so they can continue the circuit. The two black wires one is power input the other is switched power output is used to control a light fixture or outlet. The source neutral wire is spliced to the neutral on the receptacle half of the combo device and to the white cable wire running to the light.

If the light turns on the second black wire you connected to the switch is the switch feed and the unconnected black wire is the feed to the other loads. One of the black wires is the hot. If the other switch is turning on off the light regardless of which position this switch is in then it is very likely this is a defective switch.

It could be either one. The connected wire feeds the other loads and the disconnected wire is the light feed. Basic knowledge of how to wire a light switch black wire this is the hot or load wire white wire this is the neutral wire bare copper green wire this is your ground wire red wire this wire is used for 3 or 4 way switches and will connect the switches together so they can each control.

Two wire cable runs from the combo to the light fixture and the switch output is connected to the black wire running to the fixture hot terminal. Turn the power back on and turn the switch on. You have an incoming hot wire black going to one screw it does not matter if you use the brass or silver screw on the side of the 2 way switch and a black wire from the other screw on the 2 way switch going to the load light ceiling fan etc.

Change the light switch that operates on both sides of the wall. The light will either turn on or it won t. The red is the switched hot.

However if it is only happening when this switch is in one particular position then it s highly likely one of the two switches has the common wire connected to one of the traveller terminals. If the light doesn t turn on then it s the other way around. The other is an extension of the hot to some other fixture or to one half of the switched outlet.