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    Oct 4, 2012, 04:33 PM
    How do I install 2 wall scones on one switch, wiring questions
    I have removed a ceiling fan/light and I would like to install 2 wall scones in it's place. Both sconces will be on one wall switch. What is the proper way to wire between the two scones then back to the switch?

    Also, while removing the ceiling fan/light, I was able to take out the entire wiring from the switch to the old location. When I hooked the electric back up without the switch, (or extra wire from the ceiling fan/light) I connect black to black, white to white, and ground to ground. This left me with a red wire connected to nothing, so I capped it off. Now, for some reason, in the 4 plug/sockets in this room, only one plug on each location works. Each location has two plugs and now only one works. Could this errant red wire have something to do with this?
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    Oct 4, 2012, 06:19 PM
    Sounds like a living room?and the old switch box had (at least) two switches? You are saying that you have duplex receptacles where only one half is hot at each location?
    Like this?
    http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...jmqT5Z5Fp1U_XQ
    The red wire is probably the switch leg for the receptacles, for table or floor lamp lighting,

    You need a 12-2wg cable between the two sconce boxes and
    Another 12-2wg from the first sconce box to the switchbox,
    Tie the neutral in with the other neutrals at the switch box and together at the first sconce, the black wire from the first sconce is the switch leg. At the switch,
    The black switch legs also tie together at the first sconce box(with the sconce black wire too)
    Supply hot goes to the other screw on the switch.

    If you have two (buy single pole) switches, you need two pigtails from the hot wire(s) for the switches, one for each switch.

    Get it? Each switch needs a supply wire and a switch(ed) leg, and each switched load (sconce or outlet) needs a switch leg and a neutral. And grounds everywhere there is a green screw.

    The red wire (outlet switch leg) goes on one screw on the other switch with a hot pigtail on the other screw. Of course if you don't want those to be switched, just tie the red wire in with the other hot wires at the switch box.
    .
    You can also change how many outlets are switched and how many are on all the time, really easily too.


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