GerryB
Senior Member
- Location
- woodbridge, ct. USA
I went to a customers house to put a light back someone took down. I hung it and noticed it had 4 wires, green, brown, blue and black. I had cut a piece off so I looked at it and saw the brown and blue twisted together.Hooked up black to line, blue and brown to neutral green to ground, nothing.Tried other combos, nothing. To complicate things she told me the fixture is European. Also it has candelabra adapters in each socket (6) because the threads on the European bulbs are different.After much frustration I opened the wiring compartment on the light. Green bonded to metal. Blue spliced to 6 other blue wires, one to each socket. Black spliced to 3 blacks, one to every other socket, brown spliced to 3 other black wires, also to every other socket (the other 3). I thought the 3 to 3 sockets and a different wire to the other 3 had something to do with the original 240 wiring but then I thought probably just a two switch set up. When I hooked blue to line I had power on the screw shells, black and brown to line I had power on some prongs, it was hard to check with the fixture moving as I tried to get the tester leads in. My question I guess is even if it is a 240v fixture if one wire goes to the shell and the other to the prong it should work if you have the right voltage lamps right? I am thinking maybe the adapters, but she said it was working. She originally had European style 120v lamps but couldn't find them so she got adapters and regular candlabra bulbs, and as I said claimed they were working. Last item is it is on a dimmer but I had the right power at the outlet and even tried it to the feed that was spliced through. In my mind it should work blue as neutral, black and brown together as the hot. If you can follow all this am I missing something.
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