I have a fan currently installed without a light. I have a seperate light switch for the fan light which is currently not in use. I would like to install recessed lights in the room and use the fan light switch.At the ceiling I have red, black, white, and green. On my fan light switch, I have red and black. To power my recessed lights, I plan on using the red as my hot lead. However, which wire should I use as my neutral lead, white or black?
white is always the neutral if being used as such. it is used in 3 ways as a traveler in olden days.
At the ceiling the red and black are your hot wires. One goes thru the fan light switch the other goes thru the light light switch. The white wire is your neutral. Green is ground. When wiring in your new recessed light connect your hot to red, neutral to white and ground to green
you can use red as hot lead, but you will need to pick up a neutral somewhere and it would be best to use white so as to keep things straight later on
The clamp that goes on there is tightened to the Romex with two screws and then to the junction box for the canned light with a star nut on the male end on the inside leaving 6-8 of wire to be tucked into the box after making your connections with the wire nuts. Unless you are a magician, you will have to take each one apart. This strain relief is made of metal. But as I live in 1 of three counties that don't allow Romex, I'm not likely to be in the position you are and not think of this in planning. The ones that are purchased at Radio Shack are for something else and are meant to be used where they can be seen and not hidden. Now on some metal junction boxes, there is a clamp that you have to unscrew to get the wire behind it. I haven't seen those sold separately and you would need self tapping screws. By the time all is said and done with this, you might as well stay conventional and do it right.
