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I had a dimmer switch installed in my main room and I got some LED lights instead of what we had before, and since the switch is old I'm assuming it wasn't rated to dim LED lights, and I noticed flicker sometimes. So I got a new dimmer switch. It's in a room where it only has 1 switch connected to the lights.
I just installed it but it's behaving odd in the sense that to turn the lights on, the switch has to be down. Switching it to up turns the lights off.
The old switch had no ground wires coming out of it. It just had the 2 going to the side of the switch.
This new one had a ground wire (that I connected to other bare copper ground wire in there) and then the 2 going to the side of the switch. So the only difference in the installation with this new one versus the old one is that I hooked up the ground wire, per the instructions.
I tried flipping the wires on the side and have the same behavior, which is what I expected after reading about single pole switches.
Any idea wtf the problem is? Is it just a bad switch or is there something I'm missing?
I just installed it but it's behaving odd in the sense that to turn the lights on, the switch has to be down. Switching it to up turns the lights off.
The old switch had no ground wires coming out of it. It just had the 2 going to the side of the switch.
This new one had a ground wire (that I connected to other bare copper ground wire in there) and then the 2 going to the side of the switch. So the only difference in the installation with this new one versus the old one is that I hooked up the ground wire, per the instructions.
I tried flipping the wires on the side and have the same behavior, which is what I expected after reading about single pole switches.
Any idea wtf the problem is? Is it just a bad switch or is there something I'm missing?
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