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Posted by TKM on April 4, 2007, 4:36 pm
>I am trying to install a new track light in an old house and I am
> running across a problem. While the track light has 3 wires (black,
> white, and the green ground wire), the junction box in my kitchen
> ceiling only has the white and black.
>
> What do I do with the ground wire if I dont see any obvious ground
> screw to attach it to? FYI - the light I replaced only had 2 wires
> that attached to the B & W wires.
>
> Thanks
Attach the green wire from the track to the junction box. The track is
designed to be grounded via the green wire, but you don't have a ground at
the junction box and that's not unusual with old wiring. If you can, run a
ground wire from your fuse box/circuit breaker panel to the junction box or,
better yet, a new #12 line with the black/white/green or bare ground
included.
TKM
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