Hello! I have two exact same porch lights. I was moving one lamp to test location #2 (the other light turned out to be bad, just wanted to make sure power was ok) and I thought I wrote down which wires from the wall (outside on condo patio) went into the wires on the lamp but now I see I have FOUR wires coming from the walland only three for the lamp.I seem to have two white wires, or at least I cannot see any color outside of the grey paint from when the building was painted. The third is black and the last is green and I can see the color of those wires and I am sure they were connected to the ground and the power. Now, finally my question.do those two white wired go together with the white wire from the lamp? Please email me if you need further explanation or a picture of the wiring, Thank you so much for your help! I thought I had my bases covered but I dropped the ball!!
The 2 white wires go together and connect to the white wire on the light fixture, the black to the black and the green to ground
Since you have 2 porch lights - the power or 120v is normally connected to the white and black wires, The green wire is ground. If you have 2 white wires they should be connected together. When connecting the fixture to the wires - white to white - black to black - green to green or to the metal housing of the fixture. Power should be shut off while connecting the wires. Hope this helps.
