All,
In our kitchen is a old florescent fixture. My Wife decided today was the day to change it out. I wired it exactly as the previous one was wired and it sparked and blew the breaker.
Here is the wiring nightmare I have:
3- white wires. I connected the wht wire from the fixture to them.
3- black wires connected together up in the box. Nothing from the previous fixture was connected to them.
1- red wire. I connected the blk wire from the fixture to it, the same as the previous fixture.
3- copper grounds, I coonected the fixture ground to it. The old fixture didn't have a ground wire.
It appears....by the soot and arc marks that the red wire is the source of my potential fire.
The red wire appears to be made in with the wht, blk and copper instead of just blk, wht, copper.