If my light only has a 1 Black &amp; 1 White wire + Copper Ground coming out of the light, how would this be connected to work. I tried W2W &amp; B2B no luck
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Turn off circuit breaker Connect sensor's black wire to black wire coming from house (coming into the lights electrical box). Connect red sensor wire to light's black wire . Connect all 3 white wires (from house, from sensor and from light) together.
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I did the same thing. Just removed old ballast and used existing wire nuts to connect the new one. Very simple process. Just make sure the fixture is unplugged or disconnected.
1752998
no no friend, they give you a transformer with this light so just bring your BX or romex to a 1900 box with a bx connector then just connect any two of the blue or brown wires from the supplied transformer to any of the black or white wires
1544543
I dont see why you cant.just hook up the positive and negative wire and you should be good to go.the led lights draw hardly any power.they are great lights and good people to deal with. Good luck
1671847
My light just had brown (brown/red) and blue. I used brown/red for positive (red) and blue for negative (closest to black of options provided). It works. I didn't have yellow w/green stripe. Green is usually a ground, but don't know why there would be one on a 12v DC device.
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No, this fixture is meant to be direct wired. That could also be a problem if these lights are wired in a series. The knock-outs are too small to fit 2 wires (one in and one out to the next light.
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I would suspect that the extra wire continues on to the next light fixture....black should be negative (ground) and white should be positive..if you had old fixture that worked or a volt meter to test if you actually have power.. maybe a problem like a fuse or bad connection in the wiring.on the old light bulbs base the center post is positive and the base is negative.. Led's are polarity sensitive it wont work if the wires are switched backwards.. but that wont hurt it.. just switch wires around. my wires were white and black.. but backwards white(neg) black (pos).... I traced the wire back a ways and found someone way in the past had done a repair ignoring wire color.. I would suspect that the extra wire continues on to the next light fixture....black should be negative (ground) and white should be positive..if you had old fixture that worked or a volt meter to test if you actually have power.. maybe a problem like a fuse or bad connection in the wiring.on the old light bulbs base the center post is positive and the base is negative.. Led's are polarity sensitive it wont work if the wires are switched backwards.. but that wont hurt it.. just switch wires around. my wires were white and black.. but backwards white(neg)... » Read More I would suspect that the extra wire continues on to the next light fixture....black should be negative (ground) and white should be positive..if you had old fixture that worked or a volt meter to test if you actually have power.. maybe a problem like a fuse or bad connection in the wiring.on the old light bulbs base the center post is positive and the base is negative.. Led's are polarity sensitive it wont work if the wires are switched backwards.. but that wont hurt it.. just switch wires around. my wires were white and black.. but backwards white(neg) black (pos).... I traced the wire back a ways and found someone way in the past had done a repair ignoring wire color.. « Show Less
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The switch works to interrupt the circuit. You would typically want the black wire to go to the switch and then to your light. You do not connect the white wire to the switch at all.
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I have a seventy year old house and there is only a black and white, no ground wire. The Lutron switch has two black wires and a ground. I hooked the black wires up to the black and white and the switch did NOT work without a ground. I know, because I tried it that way and then called their help line and they confirmed that a ground is necessary. The box that I put the switch in is metal and I read that the 'old school way,' when they built a house, was to wrap one wire around a box and then string that wire to the next box, and so on, until the end and where they just ground the one wire. So, I attached the switch ground to the box, and it worked. I don't know if that helps, but I thought I would share that older houses WON'T have a ground wire.
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Sorry, I just got back to read my emails. This item is ok if you want to wire your garden area with special wiring for this type of light. I didn't read all the information about it and wanted a plug in to the outlet type. So I am going to eat this one for now. Maybe one day I might wire my whole backyard to have this type of lighting system. Sorry I could not help you more. Good luck.
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You see 3 wires, first one is green and is a ground wire. Attach it to the ground if you do not use the bare copper wire also on the fixture which is another ground wire. The other two are clear and white. On mine the white wire went to the black wire in the box and the clear one went to the white wire coming out of the box. Since this is A/C current it really should not matter which one goes to which but make sure you do use the green or bare copper wires to create the ground contact. Hope this helps.
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This was a failed project for me, one of my 2 controllers died, There were times one of 2 lights worked. I might have my controller on one side of my 220 line and the sockets on the other side. What I can tell you is that manually turning the lights on with the switch in the garage, they don't come on. I think "Francois" has answered the question for us. If I saw his thoughtful answer before I started to respond, I might not have replied. Thank you Francois.
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Sorry, I don't seem to have the same wire colors coming out of this fixture. I wired it (as seen in the first chart on http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_5/chpt_2/2.html) as blue = neutral (white), light brown = hot (black), green/yellow striped = ground, and it works for me.
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I had that same problem! I tried different ways of connecting the wires but this light switch didn't work! So I promptly returned it.
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You need a low voltage transfomer. We had one already installed and just replaced the light fixture by attahing to the existing low voltage wiring. Utube has some helpful videos on this.
1923021
Use the 14/2 wire. The quick connects fit the wire perfectly! I have 50 ft of the wire running 4 o Paradise 8W LED lights with a 200W power supply. All purchased on Amazon. It works great.
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Yes just ground the black wire to a negative wire or grounded source. Run the red or positive wire from your dc source and through the single toggle switch. Just be sure to use a fused source that is low amps because the light has small gauge wires. 5 amps would my choice of fuse size