I am a DIY with low/medium electrical knowledge. Just moved into a house built in 2009. Custom home in very good shape.
In dinning room previous owners have a switch that has built in timer. I want a dimmer. I planned on installing a Lutron Caseta dimmer. In the room on the opposite wall is another switch but it doesn’t operate anything.
I removed the switch I wanted to make a dimmer and found the following.
Two black wires labeled load and hot. 1 white wire and 1 green wire.
I connected the Caseta in the following way.
white and load to one wire, ground to ground and hot to other wire.
turned power back on and fried the Caseta but breaker didn’t trip. Heard a buzz then pop and burnt smell. Quickly turned off breaker.
see pictures. Any idea how I should have wired this?
the Caseta just has two black wires and a ground coming out of the back.
In dinning room previous owners have a switch that has built in timer. I want a dimmer. I planned on installing a Lutron Caseta dimmer. In the room on the opposite wall is another switch but it doesn’t operate anything.
I removed the switch I wanted to make a dimmer and found the following.
Two black wires labeled load and hot. 1 white wire and 1 green wire.
I connected the Caseta in the following way.
white and load to one wire, ground to ground and hot to other wire.
turned power back on and fried the Caseta but breaker didn’t trip. Heard a buzz then pop and burnt smell. Quickly turned off breaker.
see pictures. Any idea how I should have wired this?
the Caseta just has two black wires and a ground coming out of the back.