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One Switch two lights - the second light furthest away from light wont turn off

Asked Jan 28, 2007, 06:24 AM — 4 Answers
One Switch two lights - the second light furthest away from light won't turn off but the first one does

Worked until I swopped the roses. Suspect that didn't do something right when putting them back. Up to now - left bulb out but need to get it to work now.

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Jan 28, 2007, 08:10 AM


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Worked until I swopped the roses.
Sorry but I do not understand what you swapped.

Sounds like the light got spliced onto a hot feed instead of a switched leg.

May need to check your splices and try different wires to find the switched leg.
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Jan 28, 2007, 11:27 AM
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Sorry but I do not understand what you swapped.

Sounds like the light got spliced onto a hot feed instead of a switched leg.

May need to check your splices and try different wires to find the switched leg.

Sorry - the roses are the light fitments in the celing into which the bulbs go.
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Jan 28, 2007, 04:01 PM


If you mean the lamp sockets, where the light bulb screws into, then the black wire must have been connected to a hot unswitched wire in the ceiling, and it needs to be connected to the switched wire.
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Jan 28, 2007, 11:00 PM
Could that be if I have confused the switch wire with feed in and out.

Have tried swopping the ceiling socket on the one that doesn't go out. The only thing I haven't done is try switching the wires around in the previous one.

Anyway of quickly identifying the switch wire ?
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