I was replacing a 3 way switch and thought I would not need to mark the wires because it would take just a minute. Yeah, correct. Got the switch off and the door bell rang. Stupid me. Now I have a brain freeze and cannot figure it out because the switch has a white wire instead of black.
Anyone who can figure it out?
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I purchased a new bathroom light fixture, and I had to use a pan box. The mounting location ended up being directly over a stud. I haven't installed too many light fixtures, and I have a few questions.
1. This particular fixture has two wirenut pigtails. I'm not sure why they just didn't use longer wires. My understanding is that these need to sit in the pancake box and not the canopy portion. Will this cause an issue with box fill? Am I allowed to remove the pigtails and eliminate those wirenuts, or will that impact UL listing?
2. When I screw in the mounting bracket for the fixture, it is pushing against the NM cable that enters the pancake box. Is this a concern? It was really the only knockout that I could use.
I've posted pictures below. Note - I didn't connect any grounding wires yet, but I know that the pan box and mount both have to be grounded.
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I am replacing fluorescent light fixture. The previous owner had 2 fluorescent light fixtures connected with a single switch. Those lights stopped working. I checked its not the tubes that were just bad. So Home Depot Associate said that probably the ballast were bad and suggested to replace the fixture with LED style fluorescent fixture.
So I took one of the fixtures off. It had 2 sets of black, 2 sets of white and 2 ground wires coming into it. In my wisdom I put caps on 1 set and connected the other set to the light. This did not work . So I was going to try the other set. But decided to search as why I have the 2nd set.
Q1: Based on the google search it seems like that the 2nd set is to connect the 2nd fluorescent light fixture. So I am thinking to connect both sets of wires to the 1st fixture. Thoughts?
Q2: I am also having some thoughts as what is the possibility that 2 sets of fixtures have gone bad at same time. May be I should do something else.
The house is build in early 1990s
12-28-20, 02:37 PM
