Is there an easy way to install the switch without turning off the power or shocking yourself? Is the same true for installing a light in the ceiling where there is pre-existing wiring?
2006-11-13 10:29:42 · 8 answers · asked by Vinerider 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
The only way to safely install the dimmer switch is to turn off the power.
Oh you can do it with the power on, but it will absolutely SHOCK the stew out of you. So I wouldn't recommend it.
As for the overhead light, same holds true, although I have seen brave guys wire overhead with the power on. Tricky business though and shocking enlightment.
Just be safe...Turn off the power, please!
2006-11-13 10:36:37 · answer #1 · answered by Gnome 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hi, setting up a delicate swap is between the least confusing electric powered jobs around once you in basic terms get rid of one and replace yet another. sure, as quickly as you swap off the circuit and the sunshine is going out it means that there is not any modern-day by that swap. it is lifeless. Then it is merely unscrewing the canopy, unscrewing the swap and removing it after disconnecting the wires. Hook the recent one up precisely as you disconnected the previous one, remount the swap via screwing it decrease back on and screw the canopy decrease back on. make confident that all and sundry electric powered connections are tight and none touch one yet another. turn the potential decrease back on and additionally you have have been given a sparkling dimmer swap. returned, it is effortless.
2016-12-14 06:38:29 · answer #2 · answered by woolf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any time you leave the power on yoou have the chace of getting a shock or shorting somthing out which leads to more problems to solve. Just cut the poer off and be safe than be sorry
2006-11-13 10:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by aussie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn the power off. And if you have to ask maybe you should have someone else install the dimmer.
2006-11-13 11:42:47 · answer #4 · answered by bear45fl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You never
Flip the circuit breaker OR turn off the fuse. When the light doesn;t work...you have turned off the circuit. Simple..
CHange the switch according to the directions. .
2006-11-13 10:37:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn the power off.
Although, I have heard, wear a good pair of leather gloves and be certain to keep yourself from touching anything or anyone else while you are preforming this daring feat
2006-11-13 11:15:04 · answer #6 · answered by bob j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shut off the power.
2006-11-13 10:35:36 · answer #7 · answered by midnighttoker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My guy is a Master Electrician, I'll ask him....YES!!!!!
2006-11-13 11:20:57 · answer #8 · answered by kmoc123 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋