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John Grabowski wrote:
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The old 120v outlet has 2 blacks and 2 whites and 1 ground. The new led
night light outlet has 1 black 1 white and 1 ground. I tried hooking up
2 blacks together and the 2 whites together and screwing them to the
new
led night light outlet. But it blowes the breaker.
anyone know what im going wrong?

thanks


Is it a two pole circuit breaker that blows? I'm thinking that the
original
outlet was a split outlet and there were actually two circuits connected
to
it. Where is this outlet located?

Its in the wall. when i hooked up only one white and one black there was
no power to the rest of the room. I guess the power passes threw outlet
to the rest of the room. Its a one pole breaker that blows. 15 amp beaker.


Well it sounds as though you had it right the first time. Perhaps an
exposed contact or piece of copper wire was shorting to ground. Try
unscrewing the unit out of the electrical box and just let it hang with all
of the wires connected and turn on the circuit breaker. If it doesn't trip
your problem was with the way the wires were pushed into the box. Turn the
power off again and carefully push the wires into the box.