Sockets for Wireless Home Lighting

Video Transcript

"Michael Raines, Expert Village. So, let's get right into installing our X10 system. We're going to put in a wall switch. So, let's get to it. This is your everyday wall switch. Semi modern rocker switch, kind of nice but it's not remote control and it's not automated. I like automation and simplicity. I?m not a lazy guy, but it sure is nice to sit on the couch and turn on lights on and off for your friends when their coming in. And, turning them off without leaving the couch. It's kind of nice and it's pretty cool. This is your run of the mill, regular one ten light switch. Rectangular rocker switch, as we call it. See it's turning the light on and off. How cute. We'll pull this off and let me show you the wiring inside and we'll talk about the wiring a little more. Now, here we have two wires. Well you ask, Mikey what's going on in here? Well, it's simple. In this application, in this particular build, we have the three phases. Remember one ten, one ten and a neutral gives us two twenty or one ten in the house. Now, they gave us a hot lead. But, they didn't put it in here. The hot lead is up in the light fixture. The hot lead goes through the light fixture, back down here to the switch. And, then from the switch it goes to the neutral. So, you neither have a black nor a white in here. You see we have here, the red wire which is coming up from the light fixture or coming down from the light fixture. And, an orange coming out. Your saying, well why isn't there a black one or a white one in there? Well, it doesn't have to be. This one is going to a neutral somewhere else. This is the hot coming down from the light fixture and it's going through the switch. So, that's how that works. Sometimes, you might have the hot in here which is going to be the black. And, it's going to go through the switch and go to a neutral or a red or something else, but, not in this case. We just have the loop that's coming out of the light fixture and the neutral which is going to another light socket or maybe another receptacle. We don't know, doesn't really matter."