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David Nebenzahl

spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

Then I replaced the dimmer (it's a Lutron "decora"-style with the big
rocker switch on front and a little slider doohickey). Guess what? Same
deal; tester says "OK" when on but "open neutral" when off.

Although, I just realized: the dimmer packaging says "locator light" on
it; is there a dim light on this that is drawing this current? (I'm not
at my client's site right now.)

I put a similar "decora"-style dimmer switch in my bathroom about a
month ago, which has a neon locator light. On my switch, there was a
small slider switch you can use to enable or disable the locator lamp,
it's covered by the cover plate when you put the cover back on the
switch. Have you tried switching off the locator lamp to see if that
makes a difference?

Now that I don't know; next time I go by my client's place I'll look at it.

Thanks for the only useful response in this thread so far.

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