I recently bought a 25 year old house. There is a wall in the livingroom with 2 lights on it. We had to remove the lights to re-gyproc the wall. After we hooked the lights back up, they were working. The lights are connected and when I turned one of them off (they each have a power switch on the individual light) the other burnt out. I thought it was a blown fuse but all fuses seemed to be fine. I tested the hot and neutral wires running to the lights with a voltage tester and there is no power. Is there any way to rectify this problem or at least discover what the proble is?
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Cdsmith:
I will hazard a guess. It appears that you might have a multi-cicuit wiring. That is where a common neutral is shared between to circuits. You said that with both lights on, they work but when you turn off one light burns out. In multi-circuits situation, if re-wired wrong it can result in having 220 across wiring further down the line. I would recheck all your connection to make sure that they are in the right order. HTH some.
I will hazard a guess. It appears that you might have a multi-cicuit wiring. That is where a common neutral is shared between to circuits. You said that with both lights on, they work but when you turn off one light burns out. In multi-circuits situation, if re-wired wrong it can result in having 220 across wiring further down the line. I would recheck all your connection to make sure that they are in the right order. HTH some.
Sorry, I meant both lights no longer work. The wires feed into one light and then go to the other. I have tested for incoming power on all wires for both lights but get nothing.
Thanks for replying
