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seattlesteve · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 1 Location: seattle, wa

It seemed so simple. Replacing three existing outdoor wall mounted garage lights (that were working just fine) with three newer, more stylish looking lights.

1 positive wire, one negative, one ground.

However, when we hooked them up, it tripped the circuit breaker.

So we take one down. Circuit breaker still trips. Take second one down. Cruit breaker still trips. We have not taken all three down and the circuit breaker still trips.

What are we doing wrong?

b · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject:

hi steve,
sounds like you have a short in your wiring. somewhere there is a nuetral or ground connecting to hot. the wire from the load side of the switch goes to the black fixture wire, the circuit nuetral to the white fixture wire and the bare wire ground to the ground screw. did you change out the switches as well? did the circuit trip when the switch was off? find the short to solve the problem.
b