Hi All,
I have a home in CA that was built in 1995 and it has 6 lights in the kitchen. They are recessed canister type fixtures and takes the 65 watt flood lights that slightly protrude from the fixture. Five of the six lights are wired together on one switch and the other is all by itself on another switch. The one that is alone had a different type of bulb in it then the others. It is a kind of a four tube fluorescent light that plugs in instead of screwing in like a normal bulb, but about the same size. It wasn't very bright and I wanted to replace it and make it look and light up like the rest, but still remain on a separate switch. I bought a new connector for the bulb that matches the other type of lights and cut the black and white wires from the old fluorescent fixture and wired the new one in. Put everything back in the canister, screwed in the new light, and turned it on, but it was still very dim. It's now just like the other lights, but not nearly as bright. What could be wrong? The old fixture that was in the canister did not have a ground wire coming from it, and the new socket that I bought did not come with a ground wire attached either, but I guessed that the canister itself was grounded as were some of them that were at the store so I did not add one. If you do think is the ground how would I add one?
Thanks for any help provided John