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IGot2P

On 1/25/2014 8:35 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:12:44 -0600, IGot2P wrote:

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As everyone else has said, just keep an incandescent in the circuit. I
have a bunch of these around my house and even something like a
segment or 2 of rope light will work.
It really all depends on what you are trying to do.
OTOH a regular motion head like the Heath/Zenith works fine with a CFL
but that does require a neutral.

As an aside, the NEC now requires (2011) a neutral at every switching
location, just because of this problem.

You said that it requires a neutral. Is that different than the
uninsulated ground wire that I have in the switch box?

Don