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mombecky1
06-19-05, 05:31 PM
I replaced the lamp post a couple of years ago. I bought a new light fixture for the post. have never got it to work. I am trying again but I seem to have too many wires. The light fixture has a black standard wire and a white standard wire. Coming from the post is a black solid wire and a white solid wire also coming from the post is four other standard wires, two black, two white. One white says "com" the other white says "lamp com". One black says "120 v" and the other black says "lamp". I assume all blacks and all white go together, however there were about five wire connectors. Again I assume there should be only two since all black together and all white togetherbut that would put five different wires in one connector. I also have a sensor for night to dawn. Please help me end this two year struggle. Thanks
Cheyenps
06-21-05, 10:17 PM
I replaced the lamp post a couple of years ago. I bought a new light fixture for the post. have never got it to work. I am trying again but I seem to have too many wires. The light fixture has a black standard wire and a white standard wire. Coming from the post is a black solid wire and a white solid wire also coming from the post is four other standard wires, two black, two white. One white says "com" the other white says "lamp com". One black says "120 v" and the other black says "lamp". I assume all blacks and all white go together, however there were about five wire connectors. Again I assume there should be only two since all black together and all white togetherbut that would put five different wires in one connector. I also have a sensor for night to dawn. Please help me end this two year struggle. Thanks
It sounds to me like your post came with a photocell that is not hooked up, and the four wires marked "com" and so forth come from that photocell. It further sounds like the solid wires are the feed wires from the house. Check to see if this is so, and if it is try hooking it up like this:
Black feed wire from house to black wire marked "120V"
White feed wire from house to white wire marked "com"
Black wire marked "lamp" to the black wire on the fixture itself.
White wire marked "lamp com" to the white wire on the fixture itself.
Hook all ground wires, (bare and/or green) together.
See how it goes...
It sounds to me like your post came with a photocell that is not hooked up, and the four wires marked "com" and so forth come from that photocell. It further sounds like the solid wires are the feed wires from the house. Check to see if this is so, and if it is try hooking it up like this:
Black feed wire from house to black wire marked "120V"
White feed wire from house to white wire marked "com"
Black wire marked "lamp" to the black wire on the fixture itself.
White wire marked "lamp com" to the white wire on the fixture itself.
Hook all ground wires, (bare and/or green) together.
See how it goes...