I had drywall replaced in my kitchen ceiling behind a light fixture due to some water damage. The worker disconnected the wires from the light fixture and took it down without labeling anything. I have no idea how to reconnect the wires. In the ceiling there are two white wires that are twisted. Then there is a black wire and a white wire that are twisted together. On the light fixture itself, there are two white wires and two black wires all separate. What connects to what? Please help if you are experienced with this sort of thing. Thanks. I don't want to ruin the light or shock myself.
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In the ceiling box, you only described two sets of wires, a twisted set of whites and a twisted set of black and white. Is that all that is in the ceiling box? I have got to disagree with Victor. The black and white twisted together usually indicates what we call a switch leg. Need more info on the wires in the box.
Do not take apart the white wires in the ceiling. Usually it's white to white black to black but I don't understand why you have a black and white together. Do you have wire nuts? Is there more than one switch that works that light? O.K. The black is the hot and the white is the neutral. The unused current returns back to the panel on the neutral. That's why you do not want to separate those wires. If that neutral is shared with another circuit, and you separate those wires, you could blow something up. I'm guessing because I'm not there that the worker twisted the white and black together so other lights would keep working while that one was down. Go with white to white, black to black. Yes. you need to take those black/white ones apart and put them all together by color. If there are no wire nuts on those other white wires, I can only assume that that's where the other white came from.
I don't know exactly as far as the wiring, but please go flip off the switch for the kitchen in your circuit breaker before attempting to rewire the light :). No shockyshocky that way.
