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

[mle292.livejournal.com]

Can't do colors 'cause one B, W, & G romex does down to the switches and I'm splitting it for the two switches. So, one white is hot.

The hot white is a switch loop, for when the power starts in the ceiling. There is probably no neutral wire to the switch box.

I'll guess that you've probably already got it. The important thing to remember is to have a neutral wire for everything that consumes power (switches do not consume power, light bulbs do).

So that the colors make sense, here's a drawing of a typical switch loop with only one switch, power starts in the ceiling.