Questions & Answers for: Cooper Wiring Devices light switch wiring

light switch, only use copper wires? hi, i am replacing light switches in our home, and the light switches are from around 1950's. i have Cooper 1301-7W grounding single pole switches to replace them,

light switch runs the hall light independently without trigger each other off? you cannot cobine two hot wires to two different lights to one switch you must run each hot wire to seperate switches but

...light switch You only have two wires, because it is wired for a switch leg. You only have the incoming hot and outgoing hot to the light. You need a neutral and grounding conductors also. If you're ...

light switch to a gfi recp not having much luck with getting it to work properly i got 2 conductors from the panel and 2 conductors going to the gfi recp and on the switch i have silver terminal,brass

...light switch here in my office. Dang instruction sheet shows wiring for all kinds of cooper devices. EXCEPT pilot light switch. So I tested with multimeter and came up with following: Key to any ...

...light switch , when i connect and try it i blow the fuses help Unfortunately, you don't say what wires are inside box or what lights you are connecting, or what type of switch you are replacing. So ...

switch. If the light will not light (in either position of the other switch), then your red and shiny are your travelers, your test is done. If the light DOES light, then dull is one of your travelers

switch controls light & fan. Trying to change out switch into a gfi switch/receptile. Box contains 2 wires ( total 2 white and 2 black, plus ground). what do i do First you have to identify cables

switch controls these two black wires on back of GFCI device. For example if you have a black and white wire going to light. Black wire going to lights connects to the wire on hot side of combo device

...light switch and fan switch quit working. The fan switch is its own station and then the light switch is on its own station right beside each other Did you take photo of wiring before disconnecting ...