In my oldest daughters basement bedroom, she has one over head light.
We swapped in a nice unit when we first moved in. About 6 months ago, I installed drop ceiling, but left out the center panel, this was where the light was, but it needed to move 1 foot or so to be right in the center.
I killed the breaker, dropped the fixture, took out the old ceiling box.
I then nailed (using the blue plastic ceiling boxes) a new one to the face of the joist after measuring up for center.
I had to extend the wiring about 1 foot more, since the wiring from the switch wouldn't make it.
I used 12-2 that I had, and extended it to the new box. At the splice, I nailed up a second blue ceiling box to the side of the joist, and wire nutted the two together.
Back to the fixture side, I ran the wiring into the box, hooked up the feed for the light, (just like before), and nutted it all together.
Black to black, white to white, ground to ground with the ground wire attached to the metal cross bar in the fixture in the ground to ground bundle.
This is how it was when I wired it up last time.
I pushed the wies up into the box, gently folding them, and using the center threaded rod, re-attached the light to the bracket.
I'll skip over my intense measuring of the ceiling tile and the cutting I did. :laughing:
Needless to say, I turned on the switch, went back to the circuit panel, flipped it over and it promptly tripped.
So I turn it back off, go back into the bedroom, and re-do everything I just wrote above.
I was thinking I would find a bit of wire exposed somewhere, but I never did, none of the wires were crossed either.
So I re do everything, turn the switch on, go back to the breaker, flip it, and it trips again.
Now what the heck did I do?
All I wanted was to center her light and get her ceiling finished so she didn't have that one tile missing. What I thought would be a 30-45 minute job tops, turned into a frustrating 2 hours with no light in there now.
What can I do here?
Many thanks,
Blair
We swapped in a nice unit when we first moved in. About 6 months ago, I installed drop ceiling, but left out the center panel, this was where the light was, but it needed to move 1 foot or so to be right in the center.
I killed the breaker, dropped the fixture, took out the old ceiling box.
I then nailed (using the blue plastic ceiling boxes) a new one to the face of the joist after measuring up for center.
I had to extend the wiring about 1 foot more, since the wiring from the switch wouldn't make it.
I used 12-2 that I had, and extended it to the new box. At the splice, I nailed up a second blue ceiling box to the side of the joist, and wire nutted the two together.
Back to the fixture side, I ran the wiring into the box, hooked up the feed for the light, (just like before), and nutted it all together.
Black to black, white to white, ground to ground with the ground wire attached to the metal cross bar in the fixture in the ground to ground bundle.
This is how it was when I wired it up last time.
I pushed the wies up into the box, gently folding them, and using the center threaded rod, re-attached the light to the bracket.
I'll skip over my intense measuring of the ceiling tile and the cutting I did. :laughing:
Needless to say, I turned on the switch, went back to the circuit panel, flipped it over and it promptly tripped.
So I turn it back off, go back into the bedroom, and re-do everything I just wrote above.
I was thinking I would find a bit of wire exposed somewhere, but I never did, none of the wires were crossed either.
So I re do everything, turn the switch on, go back to the breaker, flip it, and it trips again.
Now what the heck did I do?
All I wanted was to center her light and get her ceiling finished so she didn't have that one tile missing. What I thought would be a 30-45 minute job tops, turned into a frustrating 2 hours with no light in there now.
What can I do here?
Many thanks,
Blair