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confused1sf
Jan 28, 2007, 07:24 AM
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.

tkrussell
Jan 28, 2007, 09:10 AM
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.

confused1sf
Jan 28, 2007, 12:27 PM
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.

tkrussell
Jan 28, 2007, 05:01 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.

confused1sf
Jan 29, 2007, 12:00 AM
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 ?