How to connect light switch:?

Question

Hi

I purchased this light switch:
http://www.vinsani.com/pd-pk-chrome-touch-light-switch-1-gang-1-way-onoff.cfm



I have connected light switches before.
This one is 1 gang 1 way (1 siwtch 1 light) that i am replacing.
As the above siwtch looks nice, and is modern.

The instructions for my new light switch say:
1. Take frame off from switch plate using a screwdriver.
2. Connect live wire into the connectors (l1,l2) as indicated on the circuit board.
3. screw the frame onto the rear box installed inside of wall (two screws)
4. Put switch plate on frame. Note the direction of plate corresponds with the contacting pins of cicuit box)

My existing switch is connected as follows:

Live: common (red)
L1: neutral (black)
wall plate has earth connected to it


My issue:

The new light switch has only l1 and l2 no common.
How shall i connect the red and black wires from my existing wiring to the new light switch?

Thanks in advance
Regards

Tovia

Answer 1

As an electrician, I can only guess as to which goes where since I have never installed a 2-wire touch switch before. I've connected touch modules but not 2-wire devices. My guess would be to connect the line (hot) to L1 and the load (wire to the lamp) to L2, then see what happens. The LEDs should light when the lamp is OFF and the LEDs should go off when the lamp is ON.

Answer 2

The line (also referred to as "hot" or "live") wire supplies power. "Common" is the term for the wire that provides a circuit for the power after it has been supplied to the appliance or light. In a light-switch circuit, the line wire is connected to one terminal and is switched to the other terminal, where a wire is connected to carry power to the light (also referred to as "load"). A "common" wire then completes the circuit from light to ground, and doesn't route to the switch.



Connect the line wire to your switch as instructed (l1). Apparently, the instructions have been translated incorrectly (or you haven't comprehended) and the wire that goes to your light should be connected to l2. How did you think you could connect one wire to two terminals on the switch, anyway?

Answer 3

I presume this must be a DC circuit or you are on some other planet, like England, since the wires are red and black only. If this is an 250 VAC circuit in the US, the red and black are both hot and white is neutral. In a 115 VAC US circuit, black is hot, white neutral, and green is ground.

Answer 4

One needs extra counsel: -Are you attempting to make a easy with a single swap into one with 2 switches, or did the easy have 2 switches initially. - Are those 6 wires defined in a container the place the push button swap grew to become into related, or yet another container. - How precisely are those 6 wires related. a sturdy thank you to coach it rather is to take a image with a digital digicam and placed up it. Failing which you would be able to make drawings. One needs to be attentive to if those wires are available in in 2 cables with R,B,W wires in each cable, or is there another affiliation. One additionally needs to be attentive to precisely how the colours are related to the swap and to different wires. - when you consider which you have a push-button swap, you have got older wiring. Do you thru any hazard have fuses rather of circuit breakers. putting a easy bulb interior the fuse container could be risk-free thank you to learn for some blatant blunders. - i anticipate you be attentive to which breaker/fuse the easy is expounded to. it rather is a sturdy theory to be attentive to what different lighting fixtures furnishings are plugs are on a similar breaker a great thank you to get an theory which wires come from the easy, which of them come from the ability and which will feed directly to a various easy or plug. - consistent with this, what floor is that this easy on. If there is an attic above the cables will possibly bypass up into the ceiling to feed for the duration of. If there's a basement under, they are going to probable bypass down and run for the duration of under the floor. besides the incontrovertible fact that that's by using no potential a definite element. sturdy success John