LED light install with Red, Black, White, ground wires
I'm looking to replace one of my garage lights with a new LED fixture. I have two lights, one for the first two garage doors and a second for the third bay. I have two light switches, one controls the first light and the other controls the second light. They work independently and not like a three way switch.
I pulled the light receptacle down for the first light and t has the black hot plus two red and two neutrals (white). I'm assuming they wired it that way so they could jump the wires from the first light over to the second light light. Not sure why they didn't run separate lines for each light and each switch. I've never seen this type of setup before. The LED light only has the white, black, green wires.
How can I hook up my LED fixture? Is it even possible in this scenario?
Here is a picture I took of my receptacle and then a screen shot of the installation instructions from the LED light.
Connect the two white wires together and add the fixture white wire.
Connect the two red wires together and add the fixture black wire.
Connect grounds.
Be careful...... handle the white wires as hot when removed from the fixture as they may be feeding a load between them and the black wire.
Thanks, I'll give that a try and switch off the circuit breaker first.
I sill don't get why they used the red wires like this
unless that's all the electrician had at the time or maybe it was due to the light receptacle having the two mounting points for both the hot and neutral.
That is three wire cable with ground. It's commonly used to wire an always live/switched circuit or two switched circuits. In your case... it's two circuits. One switch powers the red wire and the other switch powers the black wire. The white neutral is shared.
Hi folks,
Just looking for some help replacing a ceiling light in our foyer. It's only controlled from one light switch. The old light was a 4-bulb fixture and each socket had a green, red, and white wire. The new fixture has 3 bulbs, and I'm assuming they're wired together "behind the scenes" because I only have a black, white, and copper wire to work with. Take a look at my awesome (:)) drawing below. The old light fixture is on the left and the ceiling box is on the right. My confusion is converting from the old wiring to the new fixture. I think the one lone red wire is throwing me off. I know the drawing is pretty crazy, but if you just look at one wire at a time it will hopefully make sense.
This is what I'm thinking....let me know if I'm wrong:
1. The 1 white wire from the new fixture couples to the 3 white wires from the box.
2. The 1 black wire from the new fixture couples to the 1 red wire from the box.
3. The 1 copper wire from the new fixture can either be coupled to the existing wire nut of 4 wires (that goes to the metal clip). But that's gonna be messy. The directions say to put the copper wire from the fixture to the green screw on the mounting plate. If I do that, is it ok to have two places for grounding?
4. The 3 black wires from the box can stay coupled together as before.
Thanks!
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Hello DIY community,
I want to add led recess lighting to a bedroom; there is currently a fan in the room with a built-in light. I would like the fan to remain in the room and use it to power the led lights.
Questions:
1) Is it possible to only connect the led lights to the light from the fan, so that I may use the fan remote to turn on/off the lights?
2) I would like to avoid going into the attic to run wire, is it okay to run Romex electrical wire over a beam, not secured? Do I have to drill and run the wire through the beam or staple it to the beam?
3) Should I be using a 12/2 electrical wire (I believe this is what I currently have)?
Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you!
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