While we're on this subject. I'm renovating parts of my house. In the new pantry/laundry room, I want to put in a motion controlled wall switch, so when you have an armload of stuff you're not fumbling to turn on the light.
The wall switch has two blacks (obviously) and a ground. The light box in the ceiling doesn't have a ground coming from the junction box. It's just the old two conductor wiring without ground. The switch needs the ground to operate. The question is, can I tie the ground on the switch to the neutral at the light box in the ceiling (white wire). The white wire (neutral) lands on the ground/neutral bus bar in the junction box. So electrically, the grounds and neutrals are all the same anyway.
Or, should I pull new wire to the light box in the ceiling that has a separate ground?
Secondly:
It appears the motion controlled switch always has a small amount of bleed current, therefore the switches will only work with incandescant and fast start flourescents. If you use it with an electronic ballast flourescent, the light will have a very dim glow when it's off. I'd like to use the same flourescent fixtures that I've used in the adjoining kitchen, but unfortunately they have electronic ballasts. Do they sell a fast start kit that I can replace the ballast with?
Thanks for any help.
