Timeline for Newly installed Light, wiring issues. Won’t turn off
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| Nov 8, 2020 at 18:31 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Your error is assuming wires are color-coded. But think about it. Just here, we have 3 wire functions: neutral, always-hot and switched-hot. There are only 2 wire colors (because of how cables are made). In actuality, white/gray are neutral, but can be re-marked to be a hot and 90% of the time "the last guy" failed to re-mark. Any kind of hot is any other color, and you don't know which except by context/how it's hooked up presently. | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 4:56 | answer | added | A. I. Breveleri | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 3:22 | comment | added | brhans | A switch has 2 wires, not 1. One of the wires is probably black and the other is probably white. Neither of them is Neutral! Now - which two wires go to your switch? | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 3:01 | history | edited | Alaska Man | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2020 at 2:50 | comment | added | Phaelax z | You have one of those voltage tester wands? Find which of the black wires has no juice when you turn the switch off. Connect that to the light. You've got your wires mixed up somewhere. | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 1:52 | comment | added | Derek652 | So when I add the power (black) to the wire going to the box, nothing happens. When I connect it the wires (load) that is also connect to the plug the light stays on but it won’t turn off. | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 1:49 | comment | added | Derek652 | Like I mentioned before. There are just 2 wires going to the switch which I haven’t touched. The load is in the box for the light. The neutrals are all wires together and the load is wired with the new plug I installed. I have the lonely wire that isn’t connected to anything and that is the wire going to the switch along with the neutral. I’m not really an electrician and not very good at explaining this. If anything I will take better photos tomorrow since I am not at my home at the moment. | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 1:37 | comment | added | Jimmy Fix-it | This part concerns me: "I ran a new plug into my bathroom from my lights"... | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 1:35 | comment | added | JACK | Where's the other wire for the switch? A switch needs an always hot and a switched hot. | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 1:30 | comment | added | Jimmy Fix-it | Where on our planet are you? | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 1:09 | comment | added | Derek652 | So it’s hard to tell with that photo. But you will see a single wire by it’s self. That’s the one going to the switch (hot) the neutral is wired right now with all the other neutrals | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 1:07 | comment | added | JACK | You'll first need to identify the two wires going from the ceiling light to the switch, the always hot and the neutral. You'll need a volt meter. | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 0:49 | history | edited | Derek652 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2020 at 0:48 | comment | added | Derek652 | Kk the picture isn’t the greatest and I also forgot to mention that it’s old wire so its not colour coded. | |
| Nov 8, 2020 at 0:26 | comment | added | JACK | Sounds like you screwed up your switch loop. Can you provide pictures of the ceiling box and switch box? | |
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| Nov 7, 2020 at 23:59 | history | asked | Derek652 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |