Light comes on then goes off


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Old 07-30-07, 05:57 PM
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Light comes on then goes off

My light fixture that I removed has only 2 cloth covered wires. Both are black. The one black one has some white threads through it in a pattern -
I assumed this was the neutral - so I connected it to the white wire and the other to the black. Since there was no ground - I capped off the green ground wire of the light

Everything worked great for about 1 hour - then it went off by itself and would not come back on until about 1 hour later - i turned the switch on - the light started to illuminate for a brief second and went out.

Any thoughts as to why this is happening?
 
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Old 07-30-07, 08:24 PM
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Poor connection. Remake the connections. Not that it has anything to do with the problem, but connect the ground wire ti the metal box.
 
 

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