Today I tried connecting a monoprice on/off module and was unable to get it to turn the light on or off but I had no trouble pairing or controlling the sensor. Attached is a picture withe wiring instructions and how I wired the relay. Does anything look wrong?
Also is this a solid state relay? I don’t hear any sound when I switch it on and off.
Thanks,
The instructions state that by default the device is programmed to be installed into a system with a single wall switch with a light indicator.
Your wiring diagram shows use of the device with a single wall switch and no light indicators - which requires the device to be reprogrammed following directions provided in the instructions.
Doesn’t look like you have it wired right to me.
I looks like in the pic the hot wire (live) that should be going to switch is disconnected and hanging free at the bottom of the picture.
It also looks like the white or neutral wire going to the light or load is now connected to the z-wave switch red wire.
The way it looks right now you have no neutral going up to the light bulbs. Was that wire wire connected to the red connected to the big bunch of whites before? If so it needs to go back there. The hot on the bottom of the picture that used to be on the switch needs to stay going to the switch… you can not move it to the top screw on the switch and leave the green on the bottom.
[quote=“hmb, post:2, topic:189330”]The instructions state that by default the device is programmed to be installed into a system with a single wall switch with a light indicator.
Your wiring diagram shows use of the device with a single wall switch and no light indicators - which requires the device to be reprogrammed following directions provided in the instructions.[/quote]
Per the instructions I did hold the button down for 3 seconds and got a single LED flash setting it to single switch without indicator mode.
[quote=“integlikewhoa, post:3, topic:189330”]Doesn’t look like you have it wired right to me.
I looks like in the pic the hot wire (live) that should be going to switch is disconnected and hanging free at the bottom of the picture.
It also looks like the white or neutral wire going to the light or load is now connected to the z-wave switch red wire.
The way it looks right now you have no neutral going up to the light bulbs. Was that wire wire connected to the red connected to the big bunch of whites before? If so it needs to go back there. The hot on the bottom of the picture that used to be on the switch needs to stay going to the switch… you can not move it to the top screw on the switch and leave the green on the bottom.[/quote]
Thank you taking the time to make that edit! I’ve dealt with small dc circuits but not much ac so I’m really green here.
I made the changes you outlined, and now the state of the switch is being properly reported back to the controller however even with the switch up or down, or no matter what I click in the controller the lights are not turning on. You showed taking the live that was going to the switch and moving it to the red wire, but in the diagram they show that going to the neutral which is still confusing me. Also I still don’t hear any click; if this wiring is right, could the relay be bad?
Thanks again.
Your not looking at it right. The light or load needs both a hot and neutral (power and a ground since your used to DC voltage) the side they have connected to the neutral is labeled as so. Where your wrong in your thinking is that the other side of the light or the red wire is also neutral, which it is not. That will be the hot wire (positive in dc voltage) coming from the switch going to the load or light bulb.
hope that makes sense…
What you need to do at this point is use an AC multi-meter and check for power. You should have 120v between the red wire and white bundle of neutrals.
Your explanation makes sense; thank you. I’ll check with my fluke when I get home tonight.
I wasn’t seeing 120 volts when testing on those two points. I’m going to get another module to test with to make sure the relay isn’t bad.
I made a YouTube video about hooking up the Monoprice dual relay module:
Only thing that got me for a bit was I misread the wiring diagram. They show, top to bottom:
SW2
SW1
Load1
Load2
I ended up wiring SW1 and SW2 swapped as I assumed the switches were in the same order as the loads.
[quote=“4Crawler, post:8, topic:189330”]I made a YouTube video about hooking up the Monoprice dual relay module:
Only thing that got me for a bit was I misread the wiring diagram. They show, top to bottom:
SW2
SW1
Load1
Load2
I ended up wiring SW1 and SW2 swapped as I assumed the switches were in the same order as the loads.[/quote]
Hi 4Crawler, I did watch your videos; thank you for posting them, but you never showed the connections (you had it in the box) and I couldn’t follow what you were saying (due to my lack of knowledge).
Still waiting on my second module to test this again.
Could someone explain the flow of the relay? That would greatly help me (i.e. the red wire is hot and when the relay is open it goes out this wire?)
[quote=“netflow, post:9, topic:189330”][quote=“4Crawler, post:8, topic:189330”]I made a YouTube video about hooking up the Monoprice dual relay module:
Only thing that got me for a bit was I misread the wiring diagram. They show, top to bottom:
SW2
SW1
Load1
Load2
I ended up wiring SW1 and SW2 swapped as I assumed the switches were in the same order as the loads.[/quote]
Hi 4Crawler, I did watch your videos; thank you for posting them, but you never showed the connections (you had it in the box) and I couldn’t follow what you were saying (due to my lack of knowledge).
Still waiting on my second module to test this again.
Could someone explain the flow of the relay? That would greatly help me (i.e. the red wire is hot and when the relay is open it goes out this wire?)[/quote]
First of all your wiring diagram and his are way different… colors and all. His is a double relay yours is a single.
The red is the power out of the relay to the light.
The white is your neutral to the relay
The black is your hot to the relay
The Green is your switch.
The BLUE is the only one I’m unsure what it does and why it needs to have hot, but that’s what the instructions say.
If you have no hot or 120v coming out of the red wire going to the light you will have no lights.
Have you called monoprice?
His only problem would have been backwards switches but it would have worked.
[quote=“integlikewhoa, post:10, topic:189330”]First of all your wiring diagram and his are way different… colors and all. His is a double relay yours is a single.
The red is the power out of the relay to the light.
The white is your neutral to the relay
The black is your hot to the relay
The Green is your switch.
The BLUE is the only one I’m unsure what it does and why it needs to have hot, but that’s what the instructions say.
If you have no hot or 120v coming out of the red wire going to the light you will have no lights.
Have you called monoprice?
His only problem would have been backwards switches but it would have worked.[/quote]
Thank you for describing the wire functions; that makes a lot of sense, and thanks to everyone else for all the help and advice.
My relay was bad, I got a new one from monoprice and everything is working now!
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