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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:11 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @Nathan To be clear, the gold wire in the drawing is a copper colored ground. It is not the yellow wire in your photo. You do not need to hardwire a ground wire to your switch, due to your circumstances it is able to get ground from the metal box when screwed down tight. This does not work often, but it does for you. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 14:14 | comment | added | Nathan | Thanks! I'll definitely remember to turn off the power and test it. Learned the hard way to always double check with a tester while changing some outlets a few years back and unknowingly moving to a different circuit that hadn't been turned off. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 14:08 | history | edited | gregmac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 14:01 | history | answered | gregmac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |