I saw this recently, and, unfortunately the original was an older, non-grounding switch, so the grd was not connected to the new switches grd. term., only the red wire was. Luckily nobody got hurt.
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Originally posted by Bill Addiss:
What I've seen a lot is problems having to do with 3-way switches. Many people take out a 3-way and replace with a single pole. One of the 3 live wires usually goes on the green screw. For some reason the Breaker trips [Linked Image] [Linked Image]

Bill



[This message has been edited by Redsy (edited 04-13-2001).]