Hello all,
I just bought a pendant ceiling light fixture and it came with a Black, White, Green and Long Copper Wire. The copper wire is connected to a screw on the fixture plate/cover (cover that covers the ceiling hole).
My ceiling/electrical box is metal and has a black, white and bare copper wire in which part of copper wire is wrapped around a screw on the electrical box but the rest of it is exposed and long enough to stick out of the box.
Now, I have connected the pendant light as follows and it seems to work.
Black to black,
White to white
Copper wire on the fixture to a metal bar included with the light that had a green screw on it that is used to secure the fixture plate so it holds.
The green wire I left exposed and the bare copper wire coming from the electrical box I left exposed.
What I am unsure of now is whether I should have connected both the copper wire and green wire coming from the fixture together and then to the green screw while leaving the copper wire from the electrical box exposed as it was because it already has one wrap around a screw on the electrical box.
If someone could give me some assurance that would be great as I am a novice?
Thanks
I just bought a pendant ceiling light fixture and it came with a Black, White, Green and Long Copper Wire. The copper wire is connected to a screw on the fixture plate/cover (cover that covers the ceiling hole).
My ceiling/electrical box is metal and has a black, white and bare copper wire in which part of copper wire is wrapped around a screw on the electrical box but the rest of it is exposed and long enough to stick out of the box.
Now, I have connected the pendant light as follows and it seems to work.
Black to black,
White to white
Copper wire on the fixture to a metal bar included with the light that had a green screw on it that is used to secure the fixture plate so it holds.
The green wire I left exposed and the bare copper wire coming from the electrical box I left exposed.
What I am unsure of now is whether I should have connected both the copper wire and green wire coming from the fixture together and then to the green screw while leaving the copper wire from the electrical box exposed as it was because it already has one wrap around a screw on the electrical box.
If someone could give me some assurance that would be great as I am a novice?
Thanks