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I have a Hunter ceiling fan with lights that was installed some years ago to replace another similar fan. When the extant fan/airy was installed several years past (about 3 years past) the lineman utilized the existing Hunter 27182 switch which controls some the lover belt along and light intensity. The house was built about 19 years ago and what appear to be replaceable switches are used throughout the house.
Yesterday something broke in the switch in our master bedroom. The switch still worked but it was difficult to conform the alight intensity. I went to Home Depot and purchased the exact cookie-cutter model number Hunting watch switch (mannikin # 27182). When I went to install it I discovered that the original switch did non cause a super acid ground telegraph spell the new one did. On that point are 3 additional wires on the inexperient switch which matched the colours happening the auld tack. I hooked up the 3 additional wires on the modern switch to the wires in the palisade box being troubled to hook information technology up just like the old one was. Withal, since there was no primer/leafy vegetable wire on the overaged shift I have left the new switch's ground/green wire unconnected. The parvenue shift whole kit and boodle powdered and controls both the lightly and the fan speed as intended.
The switch is housed in a box up the wall which also controls deuce receptacles elsewhere in the way. The wiring in that box has had key/fence in texture sprayed into it presumptively from when the business firm was primitively built 19 years ago. Due to this it's embarrassing for Maine to tell which wires in that box are "ground". I've got 2 college degrees sol I am educable but none of these degrees are remotely attendant electrical/engineering. My experience with electricity is pretty much related ion charge from some chemistry classes a long long time ago.
Here's my question(s):
Fare I motivation to hook the ground wire up or can I just cap it off and employ IT as I've got it on the job now?
If I do need to addict the Green/ground wire from the new switch to a ground wire in the box is in that location an easy manner to tell which of those wires is a ground wire?
I'll try to sequester some pics of the box seat, switches and existing wiring to this situatio.
To aid in clarification the socialistic most switch (which goes to a receptacle elsewhere in the way) has 2 wires hooked to it, neither of which appears to Maine to be a terra firma connection. The middle switch (also to a receptacle elsewhere in the room) has only 1 wire hooked to IT which obviously (flatbottom to me) is not a ground wire. The right most switch is the early ceiling buff + Light change over with the ground wire hanging free.
Thanks!
Hunter Ceiling Fan and Light Switch 27182 Installation
Source: https://www.doityourself.com/forum/electrical-ac-dc/535241-ceiling-fan-light-switch-hunter-27182-no-ground-hookup.html
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