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How do I install a new light fixture with old wiring?
My old wiring for the original light in the bathroom (which has only one switch) on the wall consists of 3 sets of wires coming out through the box.
-one with a brown, a black, a ground (bare), and a red wire
-other 2 have a ground (bare), a black, and a brown.
all grounds are connected to the box in the wall.
How can I install my new light fixture which consists of a white, a black, and a ground?
Connect your ground to the other ground wires in the box. What you are calling brown is most likely the neutral (white) that has aged and discolored. Twist and cap the neutrals together. The black and the red are both hot - so one of them is extra unless it was used for 220v - so cap off the red. and attache the blacks to the light fixture. I know that doesn't look right, but here is why it works. The 4 wire coming into the light box is feeding the power (that 4th wire -red- could have been used to feed another circuit, but is not needed for this light) if you hooked the black to black and white to white of the light fixture it would always be on. Those 3 wires are going to the switch - so you connect the whites - that sends that neutral side of the circuit down through the switch - but you have to get it back up to the light - the only wire to do that is the black which you connect to the neutral side of the fixture.
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