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posted by: MikeCT
I recently moved into a home that was built in 1969 and am trying to install a light fixture in a hallway that I believe to be controlled by three light switches. Coming into the light fixture are 3 sets of wires - 2 red, 2 black, and 2 white. I do not know which wire is which because there was no light fixture there when I moved in (the prior owners took it). Light Switch 1 appears to be the 4 way switch, as there are two black wires and two red wires connected to it, and two whites are nutted together in the box. Light Switch two has a black and red wire connected on the bottom two screws and a white connected on the top screw. Light Switch 3 has a red and black wire connected at the top screws, a black wire connected to the bottom screw and then two white wires nutted together in the box (there is only one red wire coming into this box). My light I am trying to connect has a simple Black, White and Ground. From this can anyone tell me what should be connected to the fixture? Thank you
I recently moved into a home that was built in 1969 and am trying to install a light fixture in a hallway that I believe to be controlled by three light switches. Coming into the light fixture are 3 sets of wires - 2 red, 2 black, and 2 white. I do not know which wire is which because there was no light fixture there when I moved in (the prior owners took it). Light Switch 1 appears to be the 4 way switch, as there are two black wires and two red wires connected to it, and two whites are nutted together in the box. Light Switch two has a black and red wire connected on the bottom two screws and a white connected on the top screw. Light Switch 3 has a red and black wire connected at the top screws, a black wire connected to the bottom screw and then two white wires nutted together in the box (there is only one red wire coming into this box). My light I am trying to connect has a simple Black, White and Ground. From this can anyone tell me what should be connected to the fixture? Thank you
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