alright so I'm gonna do my install right now make sure you have to break her off so you don't have
any power to these things before you start so I've got my flashlight here as you guys can tell
see the wire nut right there the white that's your neutral that's coming in they've pulled you know
the 3-3 wire romex through there for each circuit in here so for this particular one looks like that
you see it from the bottom the power is coming in from the bottom and the top is feeding the three
circuits going out so two of these for my kitchen and once for my exterior security lights the
green wire net with the bare copper that's your earth ground that's what goes on the top of the
switches and then on these you know they're that's usually that bare wire I deal with the green screw
so that's your earth ground you can tell so as far as the the line goes the line is this
black right here with the whole bundle twisted so that when you on your end when you do the take it
apart that you know that will be your line that goes into the into the Smart Switch then your
load would be the on this one would be one of the middle was the red then that will be the blacks on
the other side but that would be the side going up to your light so right there let me put this down
from my first hanging the dudes unscrew the grounds and just take them off and now something
either that they use the push into what you can do usually there you just twist it back and forth and
it comes right out or switch out so one thing you wanted to do too is kind of keep your your
circuits separated so you don't mix them up here you can so that these are the two that
they're all just using the compression fit push into back and forth so one of the things for the
install is that they basically they have these things on the side I think most of us to guard
people from putting stuff in there but when you won't put multiple switches in a single gang box
you actually have to break off these perforated aluminum side things right here in order to get
the because the switches when they're in there there they essentially but up next to each other
so these will interfere so you gotta break them off so that way one see when that switches are
are there that that right now with those those little things on there they won't sit side to side
and the spacing will be off there you gotta take some pliers and break these babies off
that way once get them in there they're actually side to side and if face covers will fit perfectly
on them so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna connect the I disconnected the red wire nut to
my neutral or my yeah your white neutral since I've got so many on this circuit what I'm gonna
do is I'm going to do one I'm gonna do one to the main you know what I'm gonna do is daisy
chain them from switch to switch so for this one I would go I'm gonna go to the first switch will
put the neutral into here and then I'm gonna put the second wire I have into the second hole
and I'm gonna tighten that down then I'm gonna jumper that to the next switch over that way it
so it shares because each one of these switches has two holes the one thing I
gotta remember to do these GE ones they come one size longer than the other for
some reason so you gotta trim about a half-inch off the end of it second switch put that new go
into here grab your other your third jumper wire put it there put it in tighten it down
got a half inch from there put the last put the last one in and tighten it down
I'm going to do that last because I've got so much hanging right now so I'm gonna do my I'm
gonna do my wiring straight across get it tucked in the the the other thing is when
you have these boxes these switches are a lot thicker than your original one so now
trying to put it in is gonna be a pain in the ass you gotta push everything back make
sure you don't short anything out and then get in there so let me bring this closer
so you see the right here wire nut into the neutral to the first one put it in that hole
tighten up the screws from one daisy chain it to the next one jump it through there and then
Daisy's came to a third one you should be good alright I'm gonna go ahead and put the lines
down in Tudor so each one's gonna get its own home run line since it's already connected they're just
gotta wiggle around inside there sure you got a really good get your screwdriver tighten it down
and then I'm gonna get my load my lugs in here now I'm gonna so this particular the first one
for next year has two loads so I want to put one in each hole tighten it down the second
switch has the one red load get in the hole that down then I'll go ahead and do my third switch
that was holding off earlier on so jumper the neutral over shoot my line is in that that bundle
and then your load on the top now again all three connected basically all the main
connections are done the next thing I do is the earth ground so the earth ground is going
to be a bit tricky because of the way these are jumpered from one switch to the next so
usually take a flat head this seems kind of sticky so you got it move it up there
wiggle it in alright thanks for trying to get all these wires cut back into the box
make sure everything's flush to the back
mainly your ground and your neutrals and all that but then go flat into there
give you errands for getting your these guys back in just gotta fold them down
wires all tucked back correctly
got them all mount it on the only thing is as you can tell this one's lower and these
Tisa and we just loosen it up and slide them up so that the cover fits well that's run down
the power before I close everything up I've made all my adjustments everything's work so
everything works looks like so you notice that these have this blue LED at the bottom
in depending on what hub you're using you can set that light to be on or off depending on
what state so it comes looks like from the out of the box when it's off the blue light is on to say
to indicate that is off and when you turn it on the blue light goes off so you just reverse that
if you want depending on you know what you want to see when it's in either state so I'm gonna go
ahead and put this back together and then show you how to program this switches into smartest thing
so I made my adjustments make sure everything fit so that you know make sure your switch plates fit
in everything's flushing this square and all your gaps are good so the one thing I notice
on all these there see there they're a little thicker because of the aluminum so when you put
your splits right now on you have a much more of a gap around the edge of your walls then you did
before so depending on how OCD you are about that you can [ __ ] those edges up and paint them or
whatever you want to do alright so got everything hooked up so you go to your smart things app and
depending on where you go add a thing and then you can just let it look for yourself or if you
know where you're adding you just hit manually add device and that's why my dad was manually at
the device scroll down to switches and dimmers go down to the what you have so I've got the
GE z-wave I think it just paddle switch on/off then I just hit connect now that narrows down
the options for it to look for it so I'll find it pretty easier so the first one finally switched
so you guys feel like a it lets you rename the switch so I want to go into it action first and
then just name it something just for the hell of it I'll probably just got oh my switch -
something so I'm gonna do that first so right
now it sees three of the five switches I just installed so
rename this switch - - on that one and then I'm gonna guess one switch three so I'm gonna say am
I done with those for now I'm gonna save I'm gonna save those three under there I'm gonna
go and actually so that one is my outdoor I'm gonna go to this one and that's my dining room
table and the third one is gonna be the kitchen so now that I know I'm just gonna rename them
to the correct ones and then program my sequences that I want to switch these on