Rewiring...

[lsanderson]

At one point, when I put up the run of salvage track lighting up in the kitchen it worked fine with a fluorescent light each on it's own switch. At some point, a certain Asian fixed them, and instead of two switches controlling two different light systems, there's been two switches controlling the lights. I'm trying to separate them again, and it's proving much more complicated than I imagined. My simple plan A got the fluorescent back on the switch, but oddly enough the tracks won't light. Being such a wizard of wiring, this shouts out: "Something's not right." Of course, my usual hint that something's not right is when I throw the circuit breaker and it goes off immediately.

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Re: A stab in the dark

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I did the jumper bit, but guessed at the wrong romex in the ceiling, which, inexplicably worked anyway. I've got two old wires coming in and two new romex. Have to make another stab at it in the light tomorrow.

It just looks as if it should be simple, but the house was originally lighted with gas, not electric, and things get kinda weird faster than you'd think. It all made sense when I wired it the last time, I just don't understand how it got so messed up.