[WannabeGuru]

I'm replacing a kitchen light with 4 pot lights.

The existing light was Power->Light->Switch

To save ripping my entire ceiling down, I want to wire as follows:

Power->L1->L2->Switch->L3->L4

Is this possible and/or permissible? I have it wired like this now but when I turn the switch to on, the lights are nowhere as bright as they should be. When I started removing lights from the circuit (L3 & L4 initially, then L2, L3 & L4) the light output got brighter (what seemed to be twice as bright then full brightness respectively).

Hopefully I will be able to accomplish my lighting task without too much damage to my existing ceiling.

Thanks.

[hkstroud]

You can only do that if you have a 3-wire cable between L1 and L2.

[WannabeGuru]

Thanks Harold.

How would the wiring connections be done with the 3 wire?

[hkstroud]

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[WannabeGuru]

Thanks very much Harold.

One further question; what if the wires for light 3 & 4 branch from light 1 instead of L2? It's a bit of a convoluted mess but it was my only option other than tearing out a bunch of ceiling?

[hkstroud]

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[WannabeGuru]

Thanks for all the help Harold. This worked perfectly and now my lights are as bright as intended.

[tkrussell]

Harold's sketches and drawings are, to say the least, outstanding.

Just a comment to the installer, when a white wire is used to feed power to a switch, called a switch loop, the white wire needs to be re-identified as a hot, usually black marker, or at least black tape.