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I am a DIY with low/medium electrical knowledge. Just moved into a house built in 2009. Custom home in very good shape.

In dinning room previous owners have a switch that has built in timer. I want a dimmer. I planned on installing a Lutron Caseta dimmer. In the room on the opposite wall is another switch but it doesn’t operate anything.

I removed the switch I wanted to make a dimmer and found the following.
Two black wires labeled load and hot. 1 white wire and 1 green wire.

I connected the Caseta in the following way.

white and load to one wire, ground to ground and hot to other wire.

turned power back on and fried the Caseta but breaker didn’t trip. Heard a buzz then pop and burnt smell. Quickly turned off breaker.

see pictures. Any idea how I should have wired this?

the Caseta just has two black wires and a ground coming out of the back.Help installing Lutron Caseta dimmer F1A0FAAF-8A17-4018-8AB0-AFFA6E7EDD59 - EletriciansForums.netHelp installing Lutron Caseta dimmer 717376C4-E278-413A-8C6F-833558D5A7A3 - EletriciansForums.netHelp installing Lutron Caseta dimmer E85512C9-58AF-4909-BFBF-910FAC907065 - EletriciansForums.net
 
The white does not need connecting to the new switch just fit a wire nut and leave in the back box. The two blacks hot and load connect to each black of the new dimmer, doesn't matter which way around. The bare ground connect to green. Sounds like you will need another new switch.
 
The white does not need connecting to the new switch just fit a wire nut and leave in the back box. The two blacks hot and load connect to each black of the new dimmer, doesn't matter which way around. The bare ground connect to green. Sounds like you will need another new switch.
I agree with Westward that you mistake was hooking the white to the black. It appeared.to me as Westward mentioned that it was a basic on and off switch and all you needed to do was just hook up the live wire to one black and the wire feeding the light was supposed to hook to the other black wire. When you buy a switch and it doesn’t have a white wire never hook the black to a white. Let this be a lesson learned
 

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