On Jun 8, 9:25*am, N8N wrote:
I just wanted to check my recollections with those of you more
experienced...

if I am mounting light fixtures on old boxes where only hot and
neutral is available, the old memory banks seem to tell me that I must
either use fixtures made of a nonconductive material, OR run
supplemental grounds before mounting metal fixtures.

Is my memory correct?

I know that I *should* run the grounds anyway, unless definitely using
nonconductive (porcelain, plastic, etc.) fixtures but I wanted to
check to see if I *had* to.

thanks

nate

I believe you could also put the light fixture on a GFI circuit as an
alternative where there is no ground. You could simply just change the
breaker to s GFI type. Most NEC codes allow this.