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wire leviton toggle touch dimmer?
I only have 3 wires (Black, White, Ground) but the diagram from the manufacturer needs more. The old dimmer worked fine. All the diagrams have no connection for the white wire and calls for the dimmer's black wire to be connected out to the light.
The handyman is partially correct. The white wire is required to be the supply to the switch and the black is the return to the light.
This is NEC article 200.7(C)(2) "Where a cable assembly contains an insulated conductor for single-pole, 3-way or 4-way switch loops and the conductor with white or gray insulation or a marking of three continuous stripes is used for the supply to the switch but not as a return conductor from the switch to the switched outlet. In these applications, the conductor with white or gray insulation or with three continuous stripes shall be permanently reidentified to indicate its use by painting or other effective means at its terminations and at each location where the conductor is visible and accessible."
The short of it is, the white needs to be reidentified as a "hot" and hook it up to your switch. You may reidentify the wire by wrapping some black electrical tape around it or using a permanent marker. This is if you only have a black, white and ground at your switch box location.
Be sure to ground your dimmer switch, this is very important.
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