Formidable Wiring Multiple Lights To One Switch

Secure the light fixture to the junction box for the light following the instructions from the manufacturer.

Wiring multiple lights to one switch. Here the ceiling rose is shown with two cables both of which connect to line neutral and earth with no loop connection. Connect one end of the 6 inch wire to the top terminal of the first switch. Basically the simplest way to have multiple lights on one switch is to run a power supply wire to the switch first.

You can do this light switch wiring in one of two ways. The orange red wire is part of the 14 3 wire they used in diagram. Connect the black wire from the power supply to the white wire of the cable connected to the switch.

Wrap a piece of black electrical tape around each end of this white wire to indicate that it is a hot wire rather than a neutral wire. The other way to wire multiple lights to one switch is to connect all of them directly to the switch in a home run configuration. Connect the black wire from the switch to the black wire from the first light and the black wire coming from the second light.

This would be a two wire cable black white ground take the black wire and connect it to one screw on the switch and connect the ground wire to a screw inside the electrical switch box mounted to the wall. If the wire does not need to feed additional receptacles then you would not need the 14 3 and could just use a 14 2 in it s place. Run your cable from the first light to the second light.

The most common is to daisy chain the light fixtures by connecting them to each other and hooking the first one up to the switch. If three four or even more lights are required to be switched from a single source the new cable can be extended to as many lights as required. If you ve mounted two switches in the same electrical box prepare two black wires.

Do this for each light fixture. Tuck the wires into the junction box and then. One cable connects to the previous light the other continues to the next light.