Another electrical question

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Originally Posted by MED

It is very difficult to distinguish the line/load on this connection. First, you need to know which lines are hot and which ones are not. You have two separate black, white, and green wire leads coming from each conduit. Check to see if either or both are hot by connecting your meter to the black and white wires. Your whites being the neutral; you will need to remove the jumper to do this with the switches in the off position. Also, I would check the red and a white to verify if it is hot or cold. If one lead is cold and the other is hot, then the wire nut connecting the two whites is good. I think this was mentioned, but you should have a pig tail from the green at the wire nut to the bottom connections on the switches.


This is completely a guess, but I would think that the conduit on the right is the hot line. If the right switch is turned on, the jumper supplies power to the black wire on the left and provides power to one of the sets of lights. If the left switch is turned on, the red wire is made hot and provides power to the other sets of lights. If the switches are good, your break is farther down the line. However, I would test this by doing what I suggested above.

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The line and load wires have been identified, the black on the left is hot, red goes to the light that doesn't work, black on right goes to the spa that does work.

Has anyone in this thread thrown the idea out of hiring a licensed professional? Obviously OP is not well versed in this field and after 100 posts(some helpful some not) it still hasn't been diagnosed. That's no dig on the OP just sometimes you gotta know when to call a professional.

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Originally Posted by hghclsswhitetrsh

Has anyone in this thread thrown the idea out of hiring a licensed professional? Obviously OP is not well versed in this field and after 100 posts(some helpful some not) it still hasn't been diagnosed. That's no dig on the OP just sometimes you gotta know when to call a professional.

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The thought has crossed my mind many times during this process. Electrical is a weakness of mine and I saw this issue as a possibility to learn. I'm only off till next Monday so I'm running out of time.

Found the box, nowhere near where I thought it would be. It was behind my pool filter. very difficult to take pics back there so bear with me.

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What a cluster fuck. Your red wire being capped off is odd. It looks like it should go to the black one under the yellow nut. The white under the yellow would have to be tied into the rest of the whites.

Makes me think that it was capped for a reason.

Does the hole in the top go straight thru?

So the red that is supposed to go to the light isn't connected to anything, that is why it doesn't work.

I question the white connected to the black.

The white and black that are connected together probably go to the light and where disconnected for a reason.

When we moved in I had a pool guy look at everything and he said the light was tripping the gfi because of water in the light, he may have unhooked it as a preventative measure. The light has been dried out, replaced the bulb, and new gasket installed.

Im thinking the yellow nut is his if he did anything.. My plan was to put the red wire under the yellow cap with black but unsure what to do with the neutral.

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Originally Posted by Wulf202

Does the hole in the top go straight thru?

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No