Hello all,
I recently replaced a 2 40 watt flourescent (with the tube bulbs) light fixture with light fixture containing space for 3 60 Watt bulbs. I installed the light fixture using the same wiring that was used for the flourescent fixture.
Once installed, the new fixture worked great. However, a nearby flourescent tube fixture in a utility room suddenly stopped working. I've replaced the bulbs with brand new bulbs (just in case a surge from flipping on the surge protectors did something) and no dice.
The strange thing I noticed about the box with the new fixture is that there are 4 wires going into the box. I surmised maybe these were connected in series? However I'm pretty certain all these wires are connected as they were before.
How could installing the new fixture cause the old fixture to fail?
Also, is there anyway to test the seemingly disabled fixture to see if its still working? Testing the voltage between the terminals and ground seems to give me the same voltage as a wall socket.
I recently replaced a 2 40 watt flourescent (with the tube bulbs) light fixture with light fixture containing space for 3 60 Watt bulbs. I installed the light fixture using the same wiring that was used for the flourescent fixture.
Once installed, the new fixture worked great. However, a nearby flourescent tube fixture in a utility room suddenly stopped working. I've replaced the bulbs with brand new bulbs (just in case a surge from flipping on the surge protectors did something) and no dice.
The strange thing I noticed about the box with the new fixture is that there are 4 wires going into the box. I surmised maybe these were connected in series? However I'm pretty certain all these wires are connected as they were before.
How could installing the new fixture cause the old fixture to fail?
Also, is there anyway to test the seemingly disabled fixture to see if its still working? Testing the voltage between the terminals and ground seems to give me the same voltage as a wall socket.