Wiring a GE smart dimmer with power at the fixture

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Basically, I’m having a tough time connecting the smart dimmer to the light fixture that is powered at the fixture. The clearly ran 12-2 to the existing dimmer so I have a black/white/green. I attached the black to the load and the white to the line. I also grounded to the ground screw. When I do this, nothing happens. When I wire the neutral to the silver screw and load to black, I get an undimmable 50% bright fixture. Thanks for any help!

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So you just have one wire in the box? ie it is a switch leg? Most dimmer switches and definitely connected ones will require a Neutral wire, which you don’t have at that box in that case.

Might be the same issue as over here:

However I am not sure you can work around it if the dimmer has to be in the box…

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Won’t work. You need full time power to the switch. The switch loop cannot do that.

You’d need to put an aeon module up in the light.

Todd