Can I daisy chain electrical outlets? Electrical receptacles have two pairs of terminals so that you can daisy-chain multiple receptacles on a single circuit in an existing house. Can one switch control 2 lights?
Things You'll Need. You may want to control two lights with one switch in certain locations around your home, such as the front entrance or a double-bay garage. With some basic tools you can easily do the wiring yourself, whether you are adding a light to an existing light circuit or adding a completely new circuit. How many fluorescent lights can be on a circuit?
Re: How many fluorescent light fixtures safely allowed on outlet 32Watt? Yes you should be able to put 8 of those onto a single circuit and depending on what else you is on the circuit you will will not overload the circuit. And most outlets are rated for amps so you also will not overload the outlet. Can a fluorescent light work without a ballast? So, you can drive a fluorescent with a pulse width adjustable power supply, but this is what is in an 'electronic' ballast. How do you install a ballast?
Replace the fluorescent light ballast in four steps. Photo 1: Remove the bulbs and fluorescent light fixture cover. Unplug the fixture or turn off the power at the main panel. Photo 2: Cut the old ballast wiring. Photo 3: Unscrew the old ballast. Photo 4: Install the new ballast. Can I wire a light to an extension cord?
If you put devices in series, they will "share" the voltage, say 70 volts to one device and 50 volts to the second adding up to the volts in the circuit. Neither device is likely to be happy. I'd recommend some more investigation on your part before you start wiring. That is all the blacks together, all the whites together, and the grounds together. If you mean, can you run the wire from the switch to the first light and then to the second, that's also allowed as long as you make the connections in a legal fashion.
Many fixtures will allow you to make the connection inside the fixture. Changing kitchen fluorescent lighting. Any suggestions for replacing the fluorescent lights in our kitchen?
There always seems to be some confusion about what in series vs in parallel means in wiring. In common language, "in series" is generally interchangeable with "in a row. In series would mean that the power came in on the live wire in light 1 and then came out the neutral wire of light 1 and went to the live wire of light 2, and so on. The current would go through the whole series of fixtures before returning on the final neutral. What you actual want in electrical terms is for them to run "in parallel" - but they are still in a row.
At each light, you join all off the lives together, all of the neutrals together, and all of the grounds together. That way, current it running through each fixture individually or "in parallel. I'm not trying to be insulting, but I want you to stay safe. You might consider getting a wiring book or a knowledgeable friend to help on this. My confusion here came from the fact that I wired two fluorescent utility fixtures in a row in parallel they hummed as soon as I turned them on. I was concerned that the humming had something to do with my wiring.
In researching whether the fixtures required anything special I encountered some inconsistent advice - which I now know is due to people using "in series" and "in a row" interchangeably. Anyhow, evidently, my wiring was fine but a bad ballast right out of the box is not an uncommon event. Although both fixtures come on, they trip the breaker. It seems to me if they were going to trip the breaker, they would do it the first time.
I have tried this repeatedly after resetting the breaker, with the same results???????????????? Sometimes the lights will light up a second time, but not usually. Could it be a defective breaker? Is the breaker a GFCI type? What type of ballast Electronic or Magnetic?
Is there a replaceable starter? Other than T8, what type of fixture is it? T8 is old tech although not as old as T12 and could be a lot of things including bad ballasts since they could be old, but I suppose you are talking about a more standard fixture with two ballasts in each fixture. Although the breaker does not say it is a GFCI, it has a "test" button on it which leads me to believe it is.
They are in my garage. Additional comment: I was just replacing two four-bulb T12 fixtures that had bad ballasts so the wiring was already in place.
I found a whole new fixture was less expensive than new ballasts. Thinking there might be a grounding problem because the ground wire was solid core, with a painted green bolt, I worked on the grounding contact to make it better.
Also removing the bulbs from one of the fixtures, seems to fix the problem - so is the other fixture "bad" - but why does it come on at all? What happens if you remove the bulbs from the other fixture and leave them in the fixture you took them out of? I believe you will get the same positive results. I will explain further down. To see if one or both fixtures are bad, or in this case, if running only one fixture would still trip the breaker.
I believe it could be a grounding problem, but not in the way you think This could actually be the problem. With most 4' fluorescent tube fixtures unlike compact fluorescents they are designed so that the "static electricity" leaks off to the frame. The grounded metal frame also helps the bulb start by helping the arc jump from one end to the other initially. The two fixtures together may be leaking more current to ground than the GFCI will allow, which makes it trip.
Warm fixtures can start faster meaning higher voltage and more leakage abbreviated explanation. On the flip side, IF a better ground connection does help, then it may help the lamps start more smoothly, avoiding a spike in leakage current that would trip the GFCI.
If the lights come on they stay on for that one particular "turn-on". They don't trip the breaker at that point, but do it when you turn it on a second or occasionally third or forth time.
When turning on the lights does tip the breaker, it is immediate - ie the lights don't even come on for a second. A nightlight on the same circuit goes off the instant I flip the switch. Since I got the new fixture, I at times get a few more "turn-ons" before they tip the breaker, but they still do.
It's like the longer the lights are on, the more likely they are to build up "some kind of breaker tripping 'something-or-other' ".
I can only conclude it is a "ground-fault" issue, but I can't make sense of it. I'm wondering if it is a "bad breaker". It is a more common problem than you think, which is why I avoid putting fluorescent fixtures on GFCI circuits at all costs. In "theory" you should be able to put a reasonable number of those type fixtures on a GFCI circuit IF everything is working perfectly. It may help for a while to change the breaker. You may eventually find two fixtures that don't leak enough to trip the breaker for a while.
It may require a more expensive ballast. Ballasts tend to leak more as they get older, in general. The starter capacitor, if there is one in the ballast, or just the starting of the lamp in general tend to leak more when they are warmer. It is just the inherent nature of the beast. Thanks for your help!! Logically, it was very frustrating.
Since I have a suspended ceiling from the garage to the breaker box I think I will look into separating the lights on a regular breaker and put the rest of the outlets on a GFCI.
Thanks again! This method is called wiring in parallel , so if one light blows, the current can still continue to the other lights to light them up. A basic 15A circuit will allow you to connect up to watts of lighting load. That can be one w fixture or fourteen w fixtures. You can put all of them on one switch or use multiple switches. The question is, how many T fluorescent lamps can you run on a 15 amp circuit? The units have four lamps each with a ballast for each pair of lamps.
The ballast read ". With 4 bulbs in each fixture , that is anywhere from watts to watts total. So v Anyhwere from 1. If your fixtures are rated at watts max, that would be about 11 fixtures on a 15 amp circuit. For example if your light string is rated at 20 watts, then you can run a maximum of 10 strings together in series. Now you can see why LED light strings can be run with so many more in series than traditional incandescent mini lights that require up to 10 more times the power to operate.
How do you connect two fluorescent lights together? Category: home and garden home entertaining. Locate the electrical box power source for the lighting circuit. Cut a piece of NM cable and strip off the insulation to identify each of the interior wires.
Connect the wires to the corresponding color wires in the electrical box. How many lights can you daisy chain? How many LED lights can I put on a 15 amp circuit? What does it mean to Daisy Chain lights?
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