Hey folks, We moved into a house that has an exposed electrical wire coming out of a wall in the kitchen, directly above a wall plate with a switch. The wire has a black, a white, and a ground. I inadvertently touched the wires with the switch up, and got jolted. So, I know it works. My thought was to pick up an inexpensive under cabinet fluorescent light fixture, and install it to the switch. The light fixture originally had a plug on the end of it's cable, designed to plug into an outlet. So, I opened up the fixture, and removed the power cable, thus exposing the black & white wires inside. There's no ground on the fixture. No green screw. I attached the black wire from the power switch of the fixture to the black wire from the wall, and the white wire from the fixture, to the white wire from the wall. I just left the ground from the wall unattached to anything inside the fixture. Reassembled the fixture, turned on the breaker, and hit the switch. Nadda. Nothing happened. I can't figure out how to get the damned thing to light. Sorry if this is an amateur mistake. I have a little experience from soldering and radio/broadcast work, and I thought this would be an easy install. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks for reading.

We have an upstairs hallway with two ceiling light fixtures and three switches, one at either end of the hall and the third at the bottom of the stairs, Have lived in the house for 19 years and all of a sudden the switches work sometimes but not all of the time. I bought new switches (two three post, one four post) and wired them as the previous ones were wired. I still have the same problem and have no idea how to begin troubleshooting. Any suggestions?