Posted: 7/26/2014 11:07:45 AM EDT
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I'm finishing up a reno of the ol' shitter and I had taken of the light fixture to clean and paint, but its been off for a week or two. With the fixture off of the junction, there are two whites, two blacks, and two grounds wire-nutted together. The fixture itself has a white, black and ground. There is a bathroom fan on a separate switch. I don't remember how it was hooked up before, but shouldn't there only be a white, black and ground? There isn't anything else besides the light and the fan. I believe all the hots and the nuetrals were just wirenutted to their respective groups. Is that correct? What are the extra white and nuetral for?
Scratch that. There are two whites, a single red, and two grounds. The fixture has a white, black and ground |
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Quoted: I'm finishing up a reno of the ol' shitter and I had taken of the light fixture to clean and paint, but its been off for a week or two. With the fixture off of the junction, there are two whites, two blacks, and two grounds wire-nutted together. The fixture itself has a white, black and ground. There is a bathroom fan on a separate switch. I don't remember how it was hooked up before, but shouldn't there only be a white, black and ground? There isn't anything else besides the light and the fan. I believe all the hots and the nuetrals were just wirenutted to their respective groups. Is that correct? What are the extra white and nuetral for? |
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No black coming from the wall? Are you sure there aren't two blacks tied together at the back of the box?
Red to me indicates an incoming 3 conductor. Pull the cover off your switches. I'm guessing it is a two gang box with a red coming off one switch and a black coming off the other. If so, those wires run to the light fixture. Red is hot for light. There is probably a piece of 2 conductor that runs to the fan and the blacks from the switch to the fixture are tied together at the back of the light fixture box in the wall. Pics would help. |
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All grounds tie together... Red should go to the black fixture wire... Whites all tie together... ...but the amount/combination of conductors you say are in the box doesn't make sense unless there are two blacks wire nutted straight through and stuffed up inside the box. Take a look.
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