ELEGRP Single Pole Occupancy Motion Sensor Light Switch, Need Grounding Wire No Neutral Wire, 120° Sensor Coverage PIR Infrared Motion Activated, for CFL/LED/Incandescent Bulb, UL,1 Pack, Matte White

MOTION SENSOR LIGHT SWITCHI am NOT an electrician, and this little project scared me, because I don’t like messing with AC current.I did, however, manage to flip the breaker (cut the power) and successfully install this switch. This, despite the fact that my house was built in 1977. Before I ordered this, I took the old plate off of the old switch and looked inside to see if there was a ground. I did see some shiny copper in the back of the tiny old switch box, assumed it was ground (it was), and bought this switch.If any of you have a house like mine, you will realize that every light switch has two black wires attached to it. One wire is the LINE, and one is the LOAD. Without getting into the physics of AC current, this essentially means the SOURCE of the current, and the DESTINATION. Again, not an accurate physical description, but, a logistically apt metaphor.BONUS #1: This switch doesn’t require a ‘neutral’ connection. That is to say, you don’t have to cut into the ‘white’ wires in the box. BIG PLUS for me, as this little switch box seemed to be a fairly major junction for the rest of my house…Anyway, the first step (after cutting the power, of course), was to unscrew the old switch from the box. It became clear what was LINE and what was LOAD. Almost everything was connected to LINE, and there were a couple of wires that headed out to the garage lights that I wanted to control – the LOAD. After that, it did take a little while for me to disconnect the old switch, that was almost as old as I am, from the black leads.Then I had to turn to the ground. It was all kinds of shiny copper in the back of my switch box (behind all of the white wires). I used the same small screwdriver that I used to remove the old plate and switch to pull the wires forward. I then started to connect the new switch, by wrapping the green wire (right handed, as that’s the way the nuts twist on) around the end of the collection of ground wires, and screwing on the wire nut.BONUS #2: The 3 wire nuts that are included are long for their size, helping to protect against any short circuits; and, are pretty sturdy when you are screwing them on.I then proceeded to do the same with the LINE and LOAD wires, wrapping the black and red wires (respectively) first. However, I did find that the exposed wires that came out of my old switch to be too long for comfort, and trimmed them back before screwing on the nuts.With everything connected, I carefully stuffed (if there is such a thing) all of the wires back into the box, and screwed the new switch into place.It acted a little weird, at first. I say this because the switch, lights, and breaker box are all in my garage; so, I could see what happened when I flipped the breaker back on. The lights came back on immediately, then went back off, then came back on. All in under two minutes. I read somewhere that you should allow the switch to ‘boot’, whatever that means.After the ‘boot’ period, though, EVERYTHING HAS WORKED GREAT! I am so tickled. Something so simple has made such a wonderful difference in my life. We have dealt with this garage light problem every since we bought our house almost 22 years ago. Soooo awesome!Even my wife is skeptically excited. Her comments were, ‘It works!’. Shortly thereafter, she asked me to turn on the light in the laundry room for her. I told her that if she liked the garage thing, that I could do the same for the laundry room.BONUS #3: You can still cut your lights on and off manually. This wasn’t clear to me in the descriptions; but, regardless of your settings, you can use the ‘button’ to both turn on AND turn off your lights. However, and this makes sense, after you manually turn OFF your lights, there is a 30 second period before motion will turn the lights back on.

Bought this switch for the pantry and it’s working like a charm. Took about 10 minutes for husband to install.

I installed them in my bathroom and the closet as well as the hallway the least two the laundry room and the laundry room and it has been very practical, it has good range and it doesn't look cheap.

This motion sensing swith is easy to install and looks good. It doesn't require neutral wire which can save space. Only drawback is the response time is a bit long, taking 1-2 seconds to turn on the light. Another switch I have takes less than 1 second as comparison.

Excellent quality of product, very clear and easy to follow instructions, works great, you get everything you need to install except the tools, much nicer than the other one on Amazon that costs much more

Find out this product will leave the Ground with high voltage. Luckily it has not burn down my house yet. Throwing it into trash can now.BTW it's how it looks like after hooking up the Line and Load. Even it has been working in the past months, I get shocked once by this exterior and confused. Troubleshooting finds out it carries the high voltage in the ground line.

I bought this switch to make it easier to turn on the light going into my dark garage.After wiring it up it didn't work. The instructions said that if that happened to simply exchange the load and lead wires. That sounded strange to me, so I got out my multimeter and checked for the Hot lead, and sure enough, it was reversed. So I changed the wires and now it works great.I recommend that you just test the wires before you install so you are sure which is the load and which is the lead or hot wires.

I bought 2 10 pack of these switches. Of 20, 12 worked. They were installed by an electrician and certified that were faulty. The ones that worked are good quality and are working fine.