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Posted by Patt on February 27, 2007, 12:39 am
The two wires coming from the ceiling electrical box are, one brown and one
red. To put in a new light fixture that has a black a white and the ground
wire,,,what wire goes to the brown wire and what to the red wire? Regarding
the green ground wire what would I do? Also if I was to put in a
light/ceiling fan what wires would go to the brown and red wires from the
ceiling.
Patt
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Posted by Noozer on February 27, 2007, 1:03 am
> The two wires coming from the ceiling electrical box are, one brown and
> one red. To put in a new light fixture that has a black a white and the
> ground wire,,,what wire goes to the brown wire and what to the red wire?
> Regarding the green ground wire what would I do? Also if I was to put in
> a light/ceiling fan what wires would go to the brown and red wires from
> the ceiling.
On what planet, continent, country, district, county, borough and
neighbourhood.
Brown and Red by themselves doesn't sound like any legal wiring I've ever
heard of.
What colour matches to what on the light switch?
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Posted by on February 27, 2007, 2:19 am
>
>> The two wires coming from the ceiling electrical box are, one brown and
>> one red. To put in a new light fixture that has a black a white and the
>> ground wire,,,what wire goes to the brown wire and what to the red wire?
>> Regarding the green ground wire what would I do? Also if I was to put in
>> a light/ceiling fan what wires would go to the brown and red wires from
>> the ceiling.
>
>On what planet, continent, country, district, county, borough and
>neighbourhood.
>
>Brown and Red by themselves doesn't sound like any legal wiring I've ever
>heard of.
>
>What colour matches to what on the light switch?
>
The address implies Canada. (shaw.ca)
That "brown" may be white with some age on it and red will be the same
as black. Red is commonly used for the switched conductor in the new
world.
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Posted by Deke on February 27, 2007, 7:26 am
>The two wires coming from the ceiling electrical box are, one brown and one
>red. To put in a new light fixture that has a black a white and the ground
>wire,,,what wire goes to the brown wire and what to the red wire? Regarding
>the green ground wire what would I do? Also if I was to put in a
>light/ceiling fan what wires would go to the brown and red wires from the
>ceiling.
>Patt
>
Patt, it makes no difference how you connect them. The light or fan
will work just fine either way you hook it up.
I'd recommend you hook the Red to your Black wire and the Brown to
your White wire, but you won't notice the difference..
But if you want to investigate further, you can trace the red and
brown wire back to where they tie into a black and white wire.
Black is the hot wire and White is the neutral wire. The bare copper
or the green wire is the ground - which is not often used on lights.
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Posted by Doug Miller on February 27, 2007, 8:20 am
wrote:
>
>>The two wires coming from the ceiling electrical box are, one brown and one
>>red. To put in a new light fixture that has a black a white and the ground
>>wire,,,what wire goes to the brown wire and what to the red wire? Regarding
>>the green ground wire what would I do? Also if I was to put in a
>>light/ceiling fan what wires would go to the brown and red wires from the
>>ceiling.
>>Patt
>>
>
> Patt, it makes no difference how you connect them.
False.
The neutral conductor is supposed to be connected to the shell of the lamp,
and the hot conductor to the central contact pin. The purpose of this is to
reduce the risk of electric shock when changing light bulbs.
> The light or fan
>will work just fine either way you hook it up.
Yes, it will -- but one way is safer than the other way.
>
> I'd recommend you hook the Red to your Black wire and the Brown to
>your White wire, but you won't notice the difference..
Won't notice the difference unless he happens to get his fingers on the base
of the bulb while changing bulbs, anyway...
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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