Wiring line and load together

I’m installing 2-1 blue with the canopy module. Instructions state:

“you’ll notice in the, “After” wiring that the Line and Load are tied together at the switch. This is to ensure constant power goes to the canopy module. If power gets cut to the canopy module, it will not work.”

My previous switch had 2 line wires and 1 load wire. In this case would I tie them all together in line?
If so is the right method to wire nut two of them together with a third piece of wire that connects into switch? (Like they have you do with the neutral)

Thanks

It’s not possible that a switch would have two line conductors wired to it, in the strictest sense. You should double-check, but do you mean the switch had one line conductor that was also connected to another conductor to send the line to another device in the box or downstream to another box?

In other words, if you separated the two “line” conductors, only one was hot, right?

If that’s the case and you need to send a constant to the fan box for the canopy module, then yes, tie the hot conductor, the load to the fan box conductor, and the other conductor sending the hot elsewhere together. You can use a wire nut for all three or a Wago connector.

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Yes, it turns out that is what I meant :smile:

That worked perfectly, used wago and connected all.

I had connected to traveller before and my Luba RTK station had mysteriously gone offline… I didn’t notice until a day later so hadn’t connected the dots until now.

Further research shows me what traveller is for. Oops.

Thanks!

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