How to Find Line and Load Wires and Install a Lutron Timer Switch MA- T51MN-WH Neutral Required

hi this is bill for sparkychannel.com today i'm going to show you how to install the lutron maestro multi-location countdown timer switch timer switches are extremely useful especially in applications where you would like to control a bath fan or a light for a preset amount of time this switch has settings for 5 10 15 30 45 and 60 minutes it also has a setting so that you can use it like a regular on off switch this switch will work with any kind of lighting and is especially designed to work with today's very low wattage bath fans and led lights this particular switch does require a neutral wire to do the installation we must first make sure the electricity is off this is my client voltage tester it's telling me that the electricity is currently on now i'll turn the circuit breaker off and i'll use my tester and this time it's telling me that the electricity is off now that we know the electricity is off the first thing i'll do is remove the leviton screwless wall plate it just snaps off and then there's a little back plate that screws off now we'll remove the regular single pole switch let's pull it out and the next thing i'm going to do is i'm going to double check with my tester i'm going to take my test or turn it on and put it put it in the box check double check make sure there's like a second circuit in there or live hot wire in the back or something i've done my double check and i'm going to pull it out this is just a regular single pole switch it's got some tape on it there i'll take that off and being that this is a regular single pole switch you'll notice there's two black wires going to two bronze terminals and you just remove the wires that would be the two black wires with a single pole switch it doesn't matter which black wire goes to which bronze terminal but it's going to matter with the timer switch now i'm removing the ground wire and that will remove the switch from the wires now i have put wire nuts on all the wires and i'm going to turn the electricity back on temporarily you see now here's the hot wire this is called the line wire this other black wire would be the load wire that's a line wire you hear the beep you see the red that's my fluke one ac by the way tester i always use it in a crowded box situation okay so that's your line wire that's your load wire the load wire is the one that goes to the light it's only hot when the switch is on the the line wire is the one that brings the electricity into the box and is hot all the time i'll mark the hot line wire with a piece of tape now i'll turn the circuit breaker off and i'm going to double check with my fluke voltage detector to make sure that all the electricity is off and it's it's telling me it's it's off it is safe to work on now i'm going to pull the neutrals out from the back of the box notice i have them connected together with a wego lever nut w-a-g-o juego and now i'm going to pull the grounds from the back of the box and that's a five connector wiggle lever nut the other for the other one i've used a three connector and what i'm going to do is i'm going to take the pigtail that was going to the single pull switch off you see the timer switch has its own attached ground wire so i'll just put the attached ground wire from the timer switch into the wiggle lever net and clamp it down it's really easy and simple to work with the juego lever nuts now i have prepared a white neutral pigtail and i'm just going to put in the three connector wiggle lever nut and okay so we have the ground wire already connected now the white wire is going to go to the silver terminal that's the neutral it goes to the silver terminal it goes around the nut in a clockwise manner now crimp the wire and secure it very well that's a 1000 volt insulated milwaukee screwdriver there so now we've got the ground and the neutral connected okay i'm going to take the wire nuts off here we have the electricity off and we've tested to make sure the electricity is off the one that is marked is the hot wire okay we're going to have to go around the terminal so i'm going to need a little more copper there that was my klein wire stripper and these are my my little klein needle nose pliers put the wire around the nut in a clockwise manner crimp it and tighten it down securely now i'll put the ground wires and the neutral wires back into the back of the box now i'll put the load wire around the bronze terminal in a clockwise manner and i'll crimp it and tighten it down securely now we've got the neutral wire to the silver terminal we've got the line wire connected to the black common terminal we've got the load wire connected to the bronze terminal and we have the ground wire connected to the lego lever nut that is connected with all the other grounds in the back of the box now i'll put a couple wraps of black electricians tape around the switch for safety screw the switch into the box taking care to get it nice and level i'll screw on the back plate for my leviton screwless wall plate and then i'll just snap on the screwless wall plate now i'll turn the electricity back on right now it's set at 10 minutes so i'll go one down and set it at five minutes now with the timer switch set at five minutes i'll go ahead and turn the light on and after five minutes the light turned itself off one of the favorite combinations i like to utilize in bathrooms is the lutron timer switch you see on the left there which controls a bath fan and the leviton ips02 occupancy sensor switch which controls the light so it automatically turns on when you come in and turns off after a prescribed amount of time when you leave the bathroom and when you need the fan for 5 10 15 minutes or however many minutes you just turn on it turns itself off so this is a real nice combination for a typical bathroom setup now let's meet the stars of the show all of which i'll put links for in my video description the lutron maestro timer switch the leviton screwless wall plates the milwaukee three-piece 1000 volt insulated screwdriver set the fluke 1ac voltage tester the waygo lever nuts in the five connector the three connector and the two connector sizes and the leviton ips02 occupancy sensor switch thanks i hope this video was helpful [Music] you

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Keywords: Sparky Channel, Sparky, electrical, electrical tools, Lutron Maestro, Lutron Maestro Countdown Timer Switch, Timer Switch, Line and Load Wires, Lutron Timer Switch MA- T51MN-WH, Leviton IPS02, Lutron, Leviton, Countdown Timer, Light Switch Timer, switch, light switch

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Length: 8min 52sec (532 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 03 2020