Remote Switches for Wireless Home Lighting

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Michael Raines, Expert Village So let me show you what a wire nut is, in case you haven't seen one. There's a couple of different versions. This is the hard wire nut, its hard plastic. This one is kind of a rubbery plastic, and it has kind of a bell-shape to it that's soft. But you know what, they have these little tiny corkscrews in the side that screw together the wire and that's why they're called wire nuts. Either one would work, you could use this one, you could use that one, wire nuts are wire nuts. They do wear out, they do break, so unless you secure them very tightly on the wire, throw it out and get another one. All right, here we go. We're going to hook up our wire nuts to our wires, and twist and twist and twist. If it does not stop twisting, the wire nut's bad. That means it should be replaced. That means it's going to come off. This one isn't going to come off, because it's good. So here's our other connection, and we just twist it on, making sure that both wires get twisted in there in the little cone. Pull on it, okay it's secure, it's fine, we can put it all back together. Simply push the wire down, fold it back, and then place your control module inside and put the little screws back in. Now this is where people get screwed up, because it's so hard to find that little hole back there that the screw's got to go into, but you can cheat by lifting up a little (oh, there's the hole!), and shoving it in there and getting it started with your fingers. Once you get it started with your fingers, you take your trusty flat screwdriver, run it down all the way, same thing with the bottom one, see where the hole is, just get it started (now this one isn't cooperating), again if you just lift it up a little, see where the hole is, (there it is), okay now I got it in the hole, now we'll screw it in. Now, when you screw these in, don't squish them to the wall, make them a little loose, because you're going to have to align them a little. I'll show you what that is all about later.

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