How to use flexible conduit to wire a new outdoor, garage light.?
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Yes, the bare wire is the ground wire.
If the box is metal, connect it to the box.
If the box is plastic, connect it directly to the light fixture. Most light fixtures now days have a green screw somewhere on them for this purpose.
It is imperitive you keep the white with the white, and black on black.
Remember to shut off the circuit breaker that controls that area first.
BillyandGaby above is incorrect about black and white.
White is the common wire, and is not hot and cannot hurt you if you touch it (if everything is wired correctly). Black is the hot wire, and you can get shocked if you connect with the black wire and any ground wire, common wire or...water or the ground....
If in doubt, buy a how-to electrical book for home-wiring at the local hardware store.
Mike
Other answers:
Grounds are black or Brown and the live is white.
The copper wire is the safety ground.
The outdoor light should have matching wires. Make sure the black goes to the black and the white goes to the white. The connection points will need screw on lead protectors.
When doing this, realize that if you do not do it exactly to code and the garage burns down for any reason, they will blame it on that
Grounds are black or Brown and the live is white.
The copper wire is the safety ground.
The outdoor light should have matching wires. Make sure the black goes to the black and the white goes to the white. The connection points will need screw on lead protectors.
When doing this, realize that if you do not do it exactly to code and the garage burns down for any reason, they will blame it on that
You need to be more specific. Basically wherever you are picking up your supply from for the outside light, there will have to be a live, neutral and an earth. so just connect 1 earth to the other.
Depending on what kind of light you are installing make sure that you use a permanent live.
The bare wire is the ground. Unlike your other answer - the BLACK wire is the HOT, and the WHITE wire is the NEUTRAL.
If the colors on the old light are not black and white - connect the black to the switched wire of the light circuit, and the white to the unswitched wire. If your existing light does not have a ground to it, you connect the bare wire to the box of the old fixture. The new fixture should have a bare wire with it for you to connect the gorund to it.