SOURCE: Leviton Single Pole Switch with Pilot Light Model 277W Box
Depends on whether you want the pilot to glow when the circuit is live (the main light is on) or to glow when the circuit is off. (The switch can be used either way, and I have used this switch in both configurations at different places.)
The wiring diagram is on the inside of the box.
In indicates that if you want the pilot light to glow when the circuit is off, then you only need two wires (the live and the return, usually colored black and white, respectively). However, you also need a ground. The instructions say that you need the ground for safety (and probably legal code) reasons, but I suspect that, without the ground, the pilot light won't work in this configuration.
However, if you want the pilot light to glow when the circuit is on, you probably need a three wire configuration (plus the ground).
Hope this helps.
SOURCE: newly installed Leviton dimmer switch humming at the switch
You'll need to install an electronic dimmer, like a Maestro. Otherwise, you'll have to live with the hum.
SOURCE: replace dimmer switch with toggle
Both wires should be black because the switch interrupts or breaks the connection to the light. It doesn't matter which black wire goes where. Just be sure the power is OFF and then undo the dimmer switch (usually has wire nuts connecting the black leads) and then connect the wires to the new toggle switch.
Turn on the power and feel good about your work!
SOURCE: I want to replace dimmer switch with standard switch
the two black wires spliced are Live wires ( same value as RED) the other single black is the return. The two twisted blacks from the wall go into ther active hole of the new switch and the single into the return. No third wire for earth is needed
SOURCE: I have a leviton 057 with 2 black wires and 1
house has a black and a white line and a ground commper, dimmer has two black and a green
How do I know which blck lead goes to white and which goes to black? One lead is shorter than the other.
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