I am finishing my garage and doing some minor rewiring. Add an outlet here, switch one there. Nothing too extensive. I am having a strange problem all of a sudden. The light in the garage is your standard single 60 watt bulb screw in type. I took the fixture out and replaced it with a round 3 prong receptacle.
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...8-334-869-SP-L
The original fixture had the ground wire there but it was not strapped to the fixture. I switched out the fixture with the new receptacle so that I could put 4 - double 4ft T8 fluorescent lights in. I originally had a light bulb adapter
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...P-L&lpage=none
and ran the grounded lights into a grounded adapter and plugged it into the fixture and it worked without any problems.
Now my lights sometimes work. Other times I will hit the switch and it will turn on for a second and then I will lose power in the garage except for the GFCI receptacle. I still have power there. Every other receptacle is dead. Sometimes the garage door will trigger it also. After waiting for a while, they will magically work again. The only things that I can think of on that circuit are the garage outlets, the front porch outlet, the lighted front address sign, the doorbell and an outlet in the backyard. It's a 15 amp line. The garage door takes 6 amps at the most when in use. The lights are about 2.5 amps? Nothing else is on or plugged in. Any ideas why they would automatically reset themselves???
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...8-334-869-SP-L
The original fixture had the ground wire there but it was not strapped to the fixture. I switched out the fixture with the new receptacle so that I could put 4 - double 4ft T8 fluorescent lights in. I originally had a light bulb adapter
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...P-L&lpage=none
and ran the grounded lights into a grounded adapter and plugged it into the fixture and it worked without any problems.
Now my lights sometimes work. Other times I will hit the switch and it will turn on for a second and then I will lose power in the garage except for the GFCI receptacle. I still have power there. Every other receptacle is dead. Sometimes the garage door will trigger it also. After waiting for a while, they will magically work again. The only things that I can think of on that circuit are the garage outlets, the front porch outlet, the lighted front address sign, the doorbell and an outlet in the backyard. It's a 15 amp line. The garage door takes 6 amps at the most when in use. The lights are about 2.5 amps? Nothing else is on or plugged in. Any ideas why they would automatically reset themselves???
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