07-16-2021, 02:43 PM
OK, thanks guys. If it was a metal box, or if there had been a ground wire, I definitely would have connected it... I was just very surprised when I opened it up that the green ground wires on the previous switches weren't connected to anything. (I wonder if that's because the box being plastic, whoever put in the previous switches had the same problem I did...)
I presume that to find a ground, I would have to go behind the box and see what's happening with the source cable, as MrNoBody suggested?
And yes, the new switches work perfectly ... I'm glad I went with Lutron, the sliding action on these are much better than the previous switches and with the toggle, there's no chance of doing what I'd done before with the previous switches -- namely to accidentally leave the lights on by not pushing the slider all the way off.
I presume that to find a ground, I would have to go behind the box and see what's happening with the source cable, as MrNoBody suggested?
And yes, the new switches work perfectly ... I'm glad I went with Lutron, the sliding action on these are much better than the previous switches and with the toggle, there's no chance of doing what I'd done before with the previous switches -- namely to accidentally leave the lights on by not pushing the slider all the way off.