I decided to exchange my plug-in type under cabinet fluorescent with hardwired one. The previous owners must have had a hardwired fixtur there because there are spliced wires in the cabinet and a hole fo them in the bottom of the cabinet. However, there is no switc anywhere close. There is only one switch in the small kitchen and i is across the room and runs the overhead (incandescent) light. can?t figure where the wires are going to or which end is the on coming from the breaker box. I am really confused on how to wir this. I want the under cabinet light and the ceiling light to operat independently of each other. I figured the previous owners had thei light always on or it turned off and on with the ceiling light. Als there are two types of wire cable spliced together; a 12/2 and 14/ both with grounds. Is this OK? The 14/2 is encased in black plasti and the 12/2 in white. I don?t know if that means anything
There are several wires in the tops of the cabinets running here an there. This part of the kitchen was once part of a bedroom. Sinc it?s a 1969 mobile home, I?m assuming the wiring was upgraded, bu the wire mess makes it look like amateur work. There are actually tw open splices in the cabinets and the wires snake in and out of th wall and ceiling several times
I have found some good information on basic wiring, so if someone ca help figure out which end is the power source and how to add separate switch, I think I should be set. One other thing; I read i one place that fluorescents should have a special type of switch, bu I didn?t run across that anywhere else. :