Wiring a chandelier with red, black, white, copper in juntion box
Hello, I am trying to install a new chandelier in our dining room. The junstion box has red, black, white and copper wires. The chandelier only has a ground and one main wire that connect up to the junstion box (lower within the chandelier all the whites connected together to a main thick wire and all the black connected together to a main thick wire, then those 2 thick wires connected together to the one main wire that runs up the chandelier chain to the ceiling. The only thing I know for sure is the ground wire goes to the copper. My question is, Do we split this one main wire in two and wrap 1/2 around white and red and half around black? Thanks for any assistance you can give me!
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Thanks gentlemen for all your help, but my husband tried once again and nothing worked... so, we're calling in the electrician who put in the wiring!
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Thank you. We are going to try this when my husband has time to help me and I'll let you know if it works! He tried leaving the red capped and hooking up the black-black and white-white. The light turned on, but wouldn't turn off. We gave up, then I came back and just read what you wrote and realized we didn't try capping off black and hooking up red-black. Will try soon ;) thanks again for taking the time to help!