2 Black Wires 2 White Wires Light Fixture

Wiring a 2 wire fixture to 4 wire outlet depends on configuration of wires in outlet box.

2 black wires 2 white wires light fixture. You can use the same colour wires for lighting fixtures as long as you mark your wires and there is no danger of anyone getting confused with your wiring in future. I turn power on turn switch on no light. If you have 2 white and 2 black i will assume there are more lights controlled by the same switch. Exchange the white wire with the red wire.

Bulb1 and bulb2 white and black wires connected to breaker white and black wires. Turn on power lights come on but switch has no control. It also has a green ground wire that appears to have not been used in the original installation end is still insulated. Depending on the manufacturer of the light fixture the lead wires may be connected with a wire connector.

Also the light fixture is. Each lightbulb socket must have a separate black and white wire to supply electricity to the lightbulb. I have tested continuity on the switch and its wires. If there are two wires dangling from a ceiling rose identify the cables first.

Apologies for the correction. There is no problem with the switch. The new fixture has 1 black wire and 1 white wire. I m trying to install a new light fixture in the front hall.

My new fixture has black and white wires. Bathroom lighting particularly light bars over a bathroom vanity often will have receptacles for two or more light bulbs. The more lightbulbs the more wires. Copper wire connected to junction.

So the red wire will go from the common usually dark stained switch terminal to your light fixture and the white wire should have black tape at both ends will go from the vacated switch terminal to be connected to the red wire up in the box pictured. The old single light has the 2 wires connected separately by a little metal tab. Currently the light is activated by two switches on each end of hall. My light fixture actually has one black wire and 2 separate white wires connected to two screws on the existing light fixture.

I am confused as to where should i connect the white and the black the fact that there is no black wire used by the existing light fixture. How to install bathroom light fixtures with two black two white wires. The wall box has the typical one black and one white wire with ground apparently. Confusion arises because the light s housing has two black wires but no white wire.

Connect the two white wires from the light fixture to the white wire located in the electrical box by twisting an orange wire nut onto all three wires.