Help installing in-wall light timer

[1967rsss]

Hey all,

I am trying to install a in-wall digital light timer in the garage so I do not have to flip a switch every night to turn on my two driveway lights. Behind the current light switch is one red and one white wire. The timer has a green, white, black, red wire. Can I wire this to work?

Thanks in advance!

 

[pattenp]

It's just a switch loop in that box. The timer switch needs power so you need to pull a neutral to that box. Is that EMT grounded because I don't see a ground wire?

The white (mark as black) and red in the box hook to the red and black on the timer switch and the green on the switch is ground and gets connected to the box. The new neutral will be white and it hooks to the white on the switch. You need to verify which wire in the box is the hot because most likely the black on the switch will need to hook to the hot side so you may end up with white to the black switch or the red to the black switch depending on the hot in the box. I think I'm making this more confusing than it needs to be.

 

[vtx531]

Keep the packaging with that timer. I have two of them and I've had to replace one once, and the other one twice....in less than a year and a half.

 

[rabidsquirrel]

First things first, get rid of that box and put a 4" square with a raised cover. Those things are nothing but trouble.

 

[Aceman]

It's just a switch loop in that box. The timer switch needs power so you need to pull a neutral to that box. Is that EMT grounded because I don't see a ground wire?

The white (mark as black) and red in the box hook to the red and black on the timer switch and the green on the switch is ground and gets connected to the box. The new neutral will be white and it hooks to the white on the switch. You need to verify which wire in the box is the hot because most likely the black on the switch will need to hook to the hot side so you may end up with white to the black switch or the red to the black switch depending on the hot in the box. I think I'm making this more confusing than it needs to be.

No, you said exactly what needs to be said to make this work.