Install Light Fixture With Switch

Then turn on the light switch with all power off to the lighting circuits there is no power to the switch.

Install light fixture with switch. Connect the white neutral wires with a wire connector. Using the diagram above this would mean either cable 1 2 or 3. Complete the project by mounting the light fixture screwing the switch to the box and installing the cover plate. Three sets of wires each held together by a red wire connector.

For the most simple light fixture configuration where a ceiling light is controlled by a single wall switch this means running a two wire grounded cable from the service panel to the switch box and from the switch box to the light fixture box. Black white and copper. Cut openings into the ceiling or wall surfaces for the boxes for the switch es and for the fixture support by first tracing around the box on the wall or ceiling surface. Always turn off the electric to the circuit you are working on.

Connect the hot wire to the side of the double switch that has the jumper tab between the terminals photo 7. Installing the fixture 1 cut openings for the wiring. Hold the red and black terminals of your circuit tester to a red and a black wire that appear in the same cable. In more complicated configurations it may mean running three wire cables for portions of the circuit.

That s about all there is to it. Connect the hot wire to the brass screw and the neutral wire to the silver. In a nutshell when you re installing a light fixture you re connecting three wires from the fixture to three wires installed in the ceiling then mounting the fixture hardware.