light fixture has white, black, and green my old fixture only has black and white how should i hook it up?
my old fixture has only black and white nothing else. there are no ground wires anywhere near there in the attic. how should i hook the new fixture up? i tried white and black and i got nothing.
there is no where for the green wire to be grounded; the old fixture had no ground but it worked fine. none of the light fixtures in the house have the green wires they are all old and they all work. how can i get the fixture to work without running more wires?
Green is the ground wire and apparently you have an ungrounded system. If the box that the feed wires come in to is metal, then attach the green wire from the fixture to the metal box with a screw. If it is plastic, then just cap the green wire and tuck it into the box. Then the blacks go together and the whites go together and you should be back to normal. Just know that you DO have an ungrounded system and at some point you should have an electrician look at it and make suggestions. In the interim you will be fine. There are still many many ungrounded systems out there that operate just fine, but the protection the ground wire gives you IS missing. You can google for more information about ungrounded systems for general information.
Al
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