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    Oct 13, 2010, 10:54 AM
    Light switch trips itself in off position fed from breaker to switch to outside light
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    Oct 13, 2010, 04:32 PM

    ... And the wire comes into the box, black on the switch, from the breaker, black on the other screw on the switch over to the light, and whites (one from the panel and the other off to the light) both capped together? I see this is the third time you posed this question. No doubt you are frustrated, but how about you explain exactly what you did and how you connected everything.
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