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How do you wire a ceiling light that doesnt have a black or white wire?
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∙ 11y ago
It will have 2 black or brown wires. Look very closely at the wires coming from the light. One of the wires will have ridges on it or may have a white line or some other method of identification. That wire is the neutral wire and connects to the white wire in the ceiling box. The smooth wire is the hot wire and connects to the black wire in the ceiling box.
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∙ 15y agoIn USA an AC light fixture isn't polarized, so color-matching wires is not required.
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What are the live and neutral wires in a ceiling light?
Black is hot and white is neutral.
How do you install 5 ceiling light fixtures - in 1978 our contractor did not advise us as to how to install new ceiling lights?
The short answer is wire color to color. black to black, white to white, green or bare to green of bare.
In the US where do the blue red green and white wires on a fan go to when the ceiling has red black bare copper and white wires?
Black to Black - Black from the ceiling is a hot wire and should be switched Red to Blue - Red wire is another hot wire and should also be switched White to White - White from the ceiling is the neutral and should not be switched. Your wall should have two switches, one will control the red wire, one will control the black wire. If you wire your fan as above, one switch will turn the fan on, the other will turn the light of the fan on.
You bought a new light it has 1 black and 1 white in the ceiling there are 2 black 2 white and a red in the the wall switch there are 2 black 2 white 1red the red and black are hooked up you need help?
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I see only a red and a green wire coming out from ceiling box. What are they and how do you connect them to a ceiling light?
Normally red or black is the hot wire and green is the ground. However someone may have used the green wire as the neutral wire which is normally white. Just connect the black wire from the light to the red wire and the white wire from the light to the green wire and see if it works. If not you have to pull the wires out of the ceiling box and see how they wired it.
What are the live and neutral wires in a ceiling light?
Black is hot and white is neutral.
How do you install a ceiling light that is running off two swithches my new fixture has 1 white wire and 1 black wire. the ceiling box has white and red and black are capped together?
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How do you install 5 ceiling light fixtures - in 1978 our contractor did not advise us as to how to install new ceiling lights?
The short answer is wire color to color. black to black, white to white, green or bare to green of bare.
Why is a black guy black and a white guy white?
because it doesnt reflect light. actually black is black because it reflects minimal light a good way to say this is that the only thing which doesnt reflect light is a black hole which absorbs all forms of light due to a high amount of gravity but a black hole is technically not black because it doesnt reflect any light what so ever marvin the martian is a black mouthless martian and marvin the martian is a woman
In the US where do the blue red green and white wires on a fan go to when the ceiling has red black bare copper and white wires?
Black to Black - Black from the ceiling is a hot wire and should be switched Red to Blue - Red wire is another hot wire and should also be switched White to White - White from the ceiling is the neutral and should not be switched. Your wall should have two switches, one will control the red wire, one will control the black wire. If you wire your fan as above, one switch will turn the fan on, the other will turn the light of the fan on.
You bought a new light it has 1 black and 1 white in the ceiling there are 2 black 2 white and a red in the the wall switch there are 2 black 2 white 1red the red and black are hooked up you need help?
See discussion page
I see only a red and a green wire coming out from ceiling box. What are they and how do you connect them to a ceiling light?
Normally red or black is the hot wire and green is the ground. However someone may have used the green wire as the neutral wire which is normally white. Just connect the black wire from the light to the red wire and the white wire from the light to the green wire and see if it works. If not you have to pull the wires out of the ceiling box and see how they wired it.
If there are two black and one white wire in ceiling light do I need to use both black for the switch to work?
If there are two black wires, it's possible that it was wired for a ceiling fan and that one of the wires is for the fan part while the other is for the light part. If so, one of the black wires may be switched while the other is always "on." Normally black is "hot" and white is "neutral" (NOT ground... ground is usually green).
Trying to install an IKEA light The light has black white and 2 yellow and green striped wires Ceiling box has 2 black 2 red and white wire Room has 2 switches What should connect to what?
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If both wires for a ceiling light fixture are black how do you tell which is the live wire and which is neutral?
If both wires are black, the one that connects to your white wire is the one that should have little writing on it. Black to the plain black wire, white to the wire with writing.
What is black and white single wire in ceiling fan for?
Ground
How do you install a new pull chain ceiling light?
Just remove the old light and install the new pull chain light connecting the black wire to the copper screw and the white wire to the silver screw. There is no connection for the ground wire. Just shove it back into the ceiling box.
