On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 8:44:16 PM UTC-4, GARYWC wrote:
your OP did not make it clear that this fixture never worked.
Answer: The subject of my OP is: My porch light NO LONGER turns on

OK, here's why this make no sense from where I am sitting:

If the light work previously, then didn't and you were able to fix it
by swapping wires, how did it work beforehand? Did you take the wires
off at some point and rewire it incorrectly? (Nothing in this thread
indicates that you did that.)



Did you just move into this house?
Answer: No. I bought this condo new in 1972

Then, once again I have to ask: How did it come to be that the wires
in the fixture had to be swapped to fix a fixture that used to work but
then was no longer working? Wires may become unattached on their own,
but they don't usually swap places.


Do you have any idea who would have wired the switch in a manner that didn't work and then just leave it that way?
Answer: The wiring must have been done by the builder in 1972

Which wiring? The white wire on the fixture that used to work but then
was no longer working until you swap it for the red? (Do you see why
this is so confusing?)


Did you swap the wires and hope for the best?
Answer: No, the solution was made by a responder to my post

Not in this thread. There is not one solution offered except to
your question "How do I check the wiring?"

What responder are you referring to?


Do you have any idea *why* it now works or are you simply content with the fact that it does?
Answer: The responder knew "why" it didn't work and why it now does.

What responder are you referring to?


Did you leave the now abondoned white wire just hanging in the switch box, uncapped and unmarked, to confused either you or the next person who opens the switch box many years in the future?
Answer: No, I capped the white wire per the responder.

What responder are you referring to.


Please post those those pictures that you said you have. I'm really curious as to what color wires are in the fixture's junction box.
Answer: I did post photos of the wires in the switch box and in the outlet box where the light fixture is mounted.

Not in this thread.



If, as it appears to me at this time, all you did was swap two wires without any understanding of why and without knowing how the circuit is wired and why it now works,
Answer: The responder knew what he was talking about

What responder are you referring to?