Connecting a second light to a switch

barttrab11

I have a light fixture that operates correctly from the switch. All of the whites wires are connected together and all but one of the black wires are connected together. The first fixture is hooked up to the one black wire and the 4 white wires. I ran a wire from the first light to the second light. I just connected the black wire to the bundle of black wires and the white wire to the bundle of white wires. The first light still works correctly but the second light stays on all of the time. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.

joed

Hook the black wire from the new fixture to the single black not the black bundle.

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barttrab11

Thanks.

tripflex

Yeah you confused me there...so did you run a new wire to the switch? All you need is to run a wire from the first light to the new one. Connect the colors together.

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