I was trying to help my elderly mother out by installing a new motion floodlight, but when I was uninstalling her old floodlight I found two sets of black and two sets of white wires wired to the floodlight. The new floodlight only has one white, one black, and a copper ground. What do I do with the extra set of wires coming out of her soffit? Thanks!
Last edited by buckeye05; 03-14-21 at 08:37 AM.
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That flood light appears to have two lights on it. Those go back to a single set of black and white wires to power it. There should be a junction box to mount the light. The wires should not be coming out of a slot cut into the metal siding.
A possible answer is the old fixture contains 2 separate motion controlled lights with the parallel connection occurring in the soffit. If you can access the connectors in the soffit. remove one black and one white wire at the connectors. If the connectors aren't in an electrical box, you need to install one. Attach new fixture to the remaining black and white wires. If you can't access the connectors in the soffit. add an electrical box for the new fixture. Attach new fixture to one black wire and one white wire. Wire nut each remaining wire from soffit and leave in electrical box.
I have a Harbor Breeze LP8146 that can only be controlled by wireless remote and I want to switch it our so i can control it by Lutron Caseta light and fan controls. Currently the Black and white lines go into the wireless control and come back out as pink, gray, yellow (these three are fan controls I think) green (ground) white (common) and blue (light). I've read other posts for how to split the gray/pink/yellow to make it control the fan but they have required a capacitor but I'm not sure on the size. the other thing that I can't figure out is a second gray wire (its actually a black and white wire wrapped in gray) that comes out of the remote and bypasses the main connector and goes straight into the housing. I've attached pictures of the relevant pieces. Let me know if you have any thoughts on how to split this out so I can run it to two switches.
I recently bought a used truck and there are bed liner lights on it with a switch and some wires but I am not sure what the wires are. I want to get these bed lights to work, so could someone help me identify what these wires are so I can go from there? I've attached some pictures for reference. Thanks!
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03-14-21, 08:36 AM
