Questions tagged [light]
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Newly Installed Recessed Lights Not Working [closed]
I recently installed 4 recessed light in a room that had no lighting to begin with. I ran new wiring from the existing switch to the lights (see below). When I turn the switch on, light don’t turn on. ...
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Replaced 2 hallway light fixtures but now the light bulbs stay on dimly, even with its off [duplicate]
So I had two very old light fixtures in my hallway with 2 switches at each end, and either switch would turn on or off both fixtures. Just replaced the light fixtures and put in LED lights, hooked up ...
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How should I connect a new light fixture with black, white, blue and green wires? [closed]
I have a halogen bathroom fixture with two halogen bulbs. I have one black wire and one white wire from the wall. A dimmer switch activates this fixture, and an overhead can light simultaneously. The ...
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Shower puck light install
I live in a condo and want to install a shower light. Will it be an issue to install a damp/wet rated light in our shower ceiling with plumbing above it? In case if there is a leak from the above ...
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Light switch issue...what to do? [closed]
I was working on replacing some bathroom switches to a more modern single pole. I got the new switch wired and switch and fan work great but my hall light and dining room light have no power...there ...
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Motion lights dim [closed]
I have had my motion lights for 3 years. They were working just fine. But recently they are very dim, you almost can’t even tell they are on. Do I need to replace the bulbs? If so, how?
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Trying to wire new kitchen light
I live in the U.K. and I’m trying to wire a new light fixture in my ceiling. Coming out of the ceiling I have two red wires twisted together three black wires of which two are twisted together and ...
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home light switch problem
I'm having a bit of an issue. I've been doing electrical work for the past year or so but I'm still relatively new to this. Most of the stuff I have done has been a plug and play system or simple ...
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Placing 4” LED in the external soffit of the house with no ground
I’m trying to install 4 inch cannless LED lights in the soffit under the roof of my house. Unfortunately there is no room for the junction box which is at least 1 1/2 inches thick. I took the ...
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How should I connect the wiring for my ceiling light fixture?
I am trying to wire my ceiling light. When I connect white wire to white wire and black to black. The lights turns on but I cannot turn it off with switch see my wires from my ceiling and from my ...
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Half of the lights reversed on one switch
I have 4 lights in one room running off of one switch. This has worked great until now. All of a sudden, two of the lights turn on dimly while the other two are off when the switch is in the off ...
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How to open this kind of ceiling light
I need to change the bulb for one of the washroom lights. How this can be opened?
I tried rotating and pulling down.
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Wet Rated Pot Light
I moved into my house last year, the bathroom has pot lights and had a walk in tub. We are now installing a shower and a pot light will be in the shower. Is there a way to tell if the pot light ...
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Wiring new ceiling light fitting - old wiring
As you can see from the pictures I have an old light fitting I want to replace with the new one which you will see is already wired, but not sure what to do as I haven't seen it like this before. So ...
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Ceiling lamp (LED) with dimmer function [closed]
I am looking for a LED ceiling lamp that should have at least the following characteristics:
warm white light
luminous flux at least 2500lm
flux gradually dimmable via rotary dimmer switch in the ...
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Bathrom LED Exhaust fan. LEDs are dimming and some do not light
Bathroom ceiling light has stopped lighting fully. Some LEDs still light some and some do not light at all. I might be inside the 5 year warranty (if I can find the receipt), but I want to know if ...
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Power coming out of breaker, no power to circuit
I have a circuit that powers all smoke alarms, two hall lights, two outlets and a ceiling fan. This was working fine then stopped with no explication. I checked the breaker box and there is 120 out of ...
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Help wiring a smart light switch-one neutral for multiple lights
I have 4-5 outdoor lights and two porch lights which are all on the same circuit.
In the switch box there is only one hot, one neutral, and one ground (split).
There are two light switches. One ...
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Help installing light switch please
Ignore the wire already attached. I started before realizing there were two black wires. I was able to determine the hot wire by turning on the circuit breaker and using a non contact voltage tester.
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Four black wires (two loose?) in ceiling light
A rose in my 1970s kitchen ceiling became loose (one screw had been inserted right on the edge of the hole) and when I removed it I was faced with a jumble of wires.The green & yellow was attached ...
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Can I replace this old light switch with a countdown timer?
California house built around 1983. I have just replaced an old incandescent porch light fixture with an integrated LED sconce, working fine on the existing on/off light switch.
Now I want to replace ...
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Why does a light on a 3-way circuit turn itself on or off?
I have a light that is wired into a 3-Way circuit with one switch upstairs and one downstairs. There might be other lights on the same circuit, but I am not sure.
About a week ago, said light starts ...
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Standard light wiring
I am wiring a standard light fixture with a black and white wire. The box that I am hooking the light to has 4 wires coming out. 2 black and 2 white. I have tried wiring it to each set of black and ...
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How do I interpret this wiring schematic?
I am getting confused by the wiring schematic. For this Broan 696 bathroom vent fan it has 2 outlet plugins(one for fan, one for light) the fan outlet has black and white wires. The light outlet has a ...
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How do I troubleshoot my outdoor porch light?
My outdoor porch light will not work after a storm. Every other light and plug all came back on but this one light won’t work. Replaced the bulbs still nothing. My voltage pen doesn’t go off when ...
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Something strange [closed]
Ultimate light switches would be off in the down position. All of a sudden one has changed where the on position is off and the off position is on. There's no second switch and this just happened at ...
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Why a tube light is going bad on a particular fixture every now and then
As you can see two tube lights are there in terrace under the shade of tin-can shed.
Both the tube light's energy supply is handled by one switch but the tube light that I attach in the particular ...
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How to stop TubeLight from flicking when the water heater is turned on
Please find the video here. Whenever I turn on the water hater (tanked AO Smith HSE-VAS-X-015 Storage 15 Litre Vertical Water Heater (Geyser)), the tube light flickers. I'd like to stop that.
Should I ...
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adding a single pole light switch in same box that has 3-way switch
I have a 15 AMP circuit powering a 3-way switch [A] - 14/3 - 3-way switch [B] to 14/2 to 6 recessed lights in kitchen. The power comes into the Switch[A]. I want to add a single pole switch in ...
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Dimmable light forgets it's settings when turned off
I've bough these lamps: lamp 1, lamp 2
After turning the light off with the switch, not the remote control, my lamp forgets it's color, brightness settings. Plus it turns on with a random ...
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Help with wiring three switches
I am trying to wire three single pole light switches. Previous person removed middle switch and capped off the wires (I believe only the two yellow ones which is a black wire and a beige/white wire)
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14/3 to Power Two Switches
This is the problem, I have 14/2 (source power)into one three way switch (living room), 14/3 from that switch to a light box in the ceiling (a light is supposed to go there - different switch).
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Lights flickering in multiple rooms
This morning the lights in my living room stopped working, along with my bedroom lights flickering however lamps work when plugged into an outlet now connected to a switch, any ideas?
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Looking for neutral wire at light switch housing [duplicate]
I am trying to replace a pool light switch with a SURAIELEC Wireless Light Switch and Receiver Kit.
I am from California.
Usually I see 2 or 3 wires twisted and connecting together. I see none in this ...
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Is this a good wiring plan to replace a pool light switch with a wireless switch?
I am trying to replace a pool light switch with a SURAIELEC wireless light switch and receiver kit. Please see the photo with wiring diagram. Am I right or wrong?
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How can I remove this bathroom light cover?
I tried opening the cover use a coin/ screwdriver with no luck. Thanks for your help.
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Switch outlet combo Help
I've just bought my first home and the building inspector pointed out some outlets that were not grounded and this one that has its polarity reversed.
This is an outlet and light switch. There are 4 ...
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Three brown wires on a 2-way light switch
I am trying to install a new 2-way light switch with 4 connectors in the rear: two L1 and two COM, as seen here:
The previous installation looks like this:
Which is something I had never seen before;...
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Installed new ceiling rose. Blew light
I've just moved into a 1970s house. When I went to rewire the ceiling lights to I install a “rose” one of the lights came on fine. The other (which has another switch) made a pop noise and the light ...
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Switch with 2 terminals and 3 wires
I am Trying to replace a switch, and I noticed the old switch has 3 wires between 2 terminals. All the wires are black and there’s no ground. How would I go about wiring this to a new switch?
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Changing a light switch
I am trying to change an old light switch. It only operates a light, so I believe it is a simple, two way switch. Current switch has a black wire pinned into the back of the switch, a black wire that ...
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Hot wire goes dead when connected to a switch
So I have a switch that went dead one day. I took out the switch and used my voltage tester to see if there was any power to line and load or really any of the lines. All the lines had no power. I ...
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Light switch won’t turn off light
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I have recently changed a light fitting which I have done a hundred times before but this time the switch won’t turn off.
The cables from the ceiling are twin and earth, the light fitting ...
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How do I mount a junction box behind a vinyl mounting block?
What type of box do I use to get the junction box flush with the mounting block?
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Lutron Sunnata LED+ Dimmer on 4-way Mutli switch delays other switches on by 2 seconds
I have a 3 switches - I replaced one of the auxiliary switches with the dimmer switch and while it works perfectly fine from that switch, the other 2 switches now have a delay when you turn on the ...
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How to wire a second light switch using 3 wire cable
There is an existing two gang box with 3 wire coming in. One switch is installed and working. The 3 wire cable goes to a junction box near the first light of a series in the basement. The light for ...
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Control a double light switch (hallway light & ceiling fan) with remote device so I can cover the existing switch?
In my 45 yr old apartment I have a double light switch which controls the overhead hallway light and the dining room ceiling fan. Is there any remote device that will allow me to cover the switch ...
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Outdoor string lights plug adapter? [closed]
My back porch does not have any external outlets. The porch light has this F13BX/827 double LED light, which is requires a 2 pin gx23 base. I was wondering if there are any adapters that can go into ...
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First time trying to change a light fitting - more wires than I have holes for
Hopefully someone can help me as I'm clueless with electrics. I'm replacing an outdoor light fitting and don't know what to do with the wires. I've included pictures and will explain what I'm looking ...
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How do I Install this ceiling light?
How do I install this ceiling light? I thought the previous ceiling light had the live wire connected to the group of two wires and the neutral wire connected to the single black wire. I tried to ...
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