Light Fixture Wiring 2 White 2 Black

The more lightbulbs the more wires.

Light fixture wiring 2 white 2 black. Each light socket in a light fixture has its own black lead wire and white neutral wire. From the other side there s a black wire rb white wire rw and ground wire rg. I removed the old light fixture and it had two white wires one pure white the other white with a thin black grey line visible and the ground copper line. From the switch left side there s one white wire lw black wire lb ground wire lg and one red wire lr.

Connect the two white wires from the light fixture to the white wire located in the electrical box by twisting an orange wire nut onto all three wires. Light fixtures with more than one lamp may have a pair of black and white wires for each lamp. As i recall the white line coming from the ceiling was connected to the black line from the fixture and the white line with the thin grey line through it was connected to white and the copper line from. These connect to the black and white wires in the electrical box with the provided larger wire nuts.

How to install a light fixture with two lead wires. The fixture box you are referring to has one 2 wire cable providing the line or power in two 2 wire cables that take power to other locations and one 2 wire that is used for the switch which explains why you see a white wire attached to the other black wires.