This is the remote power switch I've used to turn my headboard lamp off and on for as long as I can remember. It's got to be in the neighborhood of 20 years old?
It has outlived several lamps in several bedrooms, channeled power for light to read hundreds of books, but it recently started making the 'fizz-pop' sounds. :(
The casing is held together by rivets, so mechanically repairing the internal switch mechanism is inconvenient. I needed to replace it, and decided this was an opportunity to overdo a power switch -- this remote deserves a worthy replacement, after all.
A z-wave switch with an a (low-voltage) external toggle. The intended use-case for these is in gang boxes behind regular light switches. This device handles the relay, and the light switch just becomes a toggle for the device.
I can turn the light on with my phone, then flip the switch to turn it back off, turn it on with my phone again and another flip will turn it back off again. The "on" or "off" state of the switch itself doesn't matter.
This particular version supports 3.1 amps on the USB ports.
The Z-wave switch toggles the right pair of outlets on and off (for lamps), while the left pair of outlets and usb ports are always on. Power comes in via a 14-gauge appliance cord. The load and neutral lines are twisted, soldered (I was worried about the cord being pulled) and wire-capped, with 14 gauge solid-core wire running to the outlets themselves. The toggle switch is 18/2 lamp cord, mostly because it was brown.
The only two-rectangle white cover I could find at Lowe's had this bizarre "screwless" design
State of the art light-switch design.
Practically hidden! Here's a better angle:
The shallow plastic gang box thing is held to the headboard with 3M removable velcro strips so it can be removed and rerouted if necessary.
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