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    Nov 13, 2010, 02:46 PM
    Wiring a bathroom light
    I am trying to change a light fixture that had fried. When I took apart the fixture I noticed red black white and neutral. The fixture has 3 places to connect and no other wires are coming in to connect other lights. If I connect the Black and the white there leaves the red. There aren't 2 white wires coming in so I can't wire the 2 together and then wire the black and the red to the light fixture. When I turn the light on the and hold a power meter to the wires it goes off on the black and white not the red. Help
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    Nov 13, 2010, 03:41 PM

    First off the white is the neutral so what's the wire color of the one you called neutral, is it bare or green. Any chance you have a second switch that controls this light? Your new fixture will have a black/hot, white/neutral and a bare ground. I can take a shot at telling you how to connect your wires but tell me about a second switch first. Is there power coming in on the red wire, ever?

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