What's up everyone Mtiesh here with M//TECH and today I'm gonna be showing you guys
how to install a smart switch. So I just did a review of a smart switch by the
company called Maxcio and one of the things that kind of disappointed me
about the Smart Switch was the fact that it didn't really come with any
installation instructions. Now for most people it may not be that hard but I had
no idea what I was doing so I figured it out and I decided to make a video about
how to install a smart watch for yourself. So let's get started.
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OK, so before you guys do anything else make sure you turn off the power to the
switch. I'm here this is my breaker in my basement and I'm about to turn off the
power. You can see mine is actually pretty well labeled so I know which one
I need to turn off, which I believe is this one right here the family room,
10, let's find ourselves number 10 and flip. So once you verify that you have turned off the
power to the switch you need to take the faceplate off the switch so you'll need
a screwdriver in my case it needed a flathead and once the faceplate is off
you'll see a couple more screws this time Phillips and you'll need to take
those off as well once those screws are off you can see that the switch will
just pull out of the wall as you see and the wires will come with it. Now one
thing I forgot to mention before even starting this you really should make
sure that you have the white neutral wire behind your wall because you will
need this without this the Smart Switch will not work. Once you have the switch
out of the wall you need to take the two black wires out of the switch now this
is where I had a lot of difficulty honestly I struggled with this so much
that I ended up just cutting the wires because they were just not coming out of
the switch for you you may have an easier time, hopefully you do.
Okay so once you finally have the switch out of the way you can start hooking up
the rest of the wires. The Smart Switch comes with four wires in the back
there's the red, black, green, and white so the white one we already know is the
neutral wire, which will hook up to the white wires the green is ground
and we'll hook it up to the ground wire that I have and then the two red and
black wires will connect up to the two black wires that we took out of the
switch so to do this you just need to twist the wire around it and then just
make sure the metal parts are contacting and then you'll need to use a electric
wire connector to hook them up. You can buy these at your local hardware store
for like 30 pack for like just three dollars so I'll have some link down
below if you guys are interested from Home Depot but yeah I already had these
lying around so I just use them.
okay so I'm back down to my basement time to turn on the
switch, We'll see if it doesn't break anything. alright so here we are again let's
see that which one is it this one right here
okay nothing blew up so that's design now I'm gonna go test it now all right
so after flipping the right switch wrong I tested it it was working perfectly
I put the faceplate on and everything and we were good to go so yeah it's
really easy to install this though I wish it did come with some instructions
for those of us who aren't used to working on electrical things but yeah.
There you guys have it that's how you install a smart switch I hope you guys
like this if you found it useful go ahead and hit that like button and
subscribe if you guys want to see more videos like this. Be sure to check out my
review of the smart switch which I have going up today as well so thank you guys
so much for watching I'll catch you guys the next one bye
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