07-15-2021, 07:17 PM
PeterB wrote:
[quote=Bernie]
If I had a ground wire I would attach it to the Green screw on the switch on the possibility that it is grounded at the panel.
Plastic boxes are the future.
Plastic boxes are not even so much as a pitch change when the roto zip slices through them.:facepalm:
Not sure I followed that. There's a green wire on the switch (soldered to the metal frame of the switch), which I assume should be attached to the metal of the box... but since the box isn't metal, there's no point in attaching it. (The screws that hold the switches to the box are therefore not touching metal either.)
You mentioned before that the green wires were loose. I assume you meant existing green wire in the box. Since you have a new switch with an attached green wire you should put them all together with a wire nut.