How to install a light switch and additional ceiling lights?
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I have a ceiling light with a pull chain in my attic. I want to add two additional ceiling lights with pull chains. I also want to add a switch so all three come on at once. I believe to do this, I can take the wire leading to the first light, wire the black and white to the switch, and the grown as well. Then run a new wire to the first light, and then to each subsequent light. Am I over simplifying?
You basically have it. You keep the black wire black and the white wire white splicing a connection at each box. The black wire is supposed to be the "hot" side so your switch will be a break in the black wire and your white will just be connected without the switch.
Do a google on "residential wiring" or "home wiring" there are many sources with pictures and advice.
You basically have it. You keep the black wire black and the white wire white splicing a connection at each box. The black wire is supposed to be the "hot" side so your switch will be a break in the black wire and your white will just be connected without the switch.
Do a google on "residential wiring" or "home wiring" there are many sources with pictures and advice.
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If you going to add more lights and a switch then you don’t need pull chain fixtures— from the existing light junction box run a 14×2 cable to where the switch will go– black wire to black wire in light junction box– the white wire now will be called the switched wire which will go to the black wire on the new light-or the hot screw of new fixture usually brass colored-the white wire in the junction box that is in the power cable is the neutral and it goes to the white wire or neutral screw of new light fixture usually silver colored— from 1st light junction box run 14×2 cable to any other boxes you want to to have a light on and black to black white to white and ground wires installed in boxes– good luck
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If you can, re-route the cable going to the existing light to where you will put the switch, then fnew cable from the switch to the first, second, then third fixture, all with keyless sockets, the fixtures wired whites to the shell, blacks to the center terminal. The switch will have the blacks connected to each terminal, whites connected to each other. Grounds connect to each other, the box if it is metal or has a grounding apparatus, and the devices if they have ground screws or wires.
If you cannot move the supply cable, you use a slightly more complex switch loop. With that, you run a cable from the original light locatino tot he switch. You will mark the white wire black, and connect it to the continuous hot at the light box, the black ftom the switch being the switchleg, with the black and white marked black connecting to the switch terminals. Like the above scenario, you will run form that first socket to the next, then the next, using keyless sockets,
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