What's wrong with this wiring scheme? There are no lights on when the unit is wired to power cord and to female receptacle (load).For the power cord, I have the black (hot) wire connected to Port 2 and the white (neutral) wire connected to Port 4.For the female receptacle (load), I have the black (hot) wire connected to a jumper wire joining Port 1 and Port 3 and the white neutral wire connected to Port 4.I have checked my wiring for this unit and it agrees with other sources on the internet.By the way, I tested the unit without the female receptacle wiring by connecting the power cord black wire to Port 3 and the power cord white wire to Port 4 and the unit then did power up with proper lights displayed. The unit only fails to power up when the female receptacle (load) is connected. What's wrong with this wiring scheme? There are no lights on when the unit is wired to power cord and to female receptacle (load).For the power cord, I have the black (hot) wire connected... » Read More What's wrong with this wiring scheme? There are no lights on when the unit is wired to power cord and to female receptacle (load).For the power cord, I have the black (hot) wire connected to Port 2 and the white (neutral) wire connected to Port 4.For the female receptacle (load), I have the black (hot) wire connected to a jumper wire joining Port 1 and Port 3 and the white neutral wire connected to Port 4.I have checked my wiring for this unit and it agrees with other sources on the internet.By the way, I tested the unit without the female receptacle wiring by connecting the power cord black wire to Port 3 and the power cord white wire to Port 4 and the unit then did power up with proper lights displayed. The unit only fails to power up when the female receptacle (load) is connected. « Show Less
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i wired mine as follows:1&2 = load know that 1 & 2 connect to a single wire of the heat/cold source. only one wire from heat will connect to 1 & 2. u only cut one wire of the load(heat supply) and connect to 1 & 2. 3&4 = power5&6 = sensorworx4me, lucku u
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Your power goes to the center connections #3 & #4 your sensor goes to #5 & #6 the load (whatever your using it for) goes to #1 & #2. There is no polarity so it don't matter which way you hook it up. The only thing on you load hook up #1 & #2 you should run the hot wire side through them. Good Luck Max ( I see clchoice gave you the same lay out)
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Your hot wire from the wall should go to port 1 and 3. Neutral from the wall should go to 4 and neutral of the receptacle. Port 2 should go to the hot of the receptacle. ground from the wall should go to ground of the receptacle. Do you have an ohm meter? You can check to make sure that your wires are connected to the proper pins of your receptacle and cable.See here: http://cdn.instructables.com/FD5/BGJG/GZLW99UC/FD5BGJGGZLW99UC.LARGE.jpg
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I recently purchased this product but have not installed it yet . Right out of the box all the parts fit together and the light worked right off the bat ,before any charging . My pull switch works but is a little hard to pull it on or off . Maybe you need to but more pull into it ? The last resort is to return it .Good Luck
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First, the unit won't operate unless you have an active ground connection. The instructions are poor in that they don't show the complete circuit to the light. Basically, run your power cable through the switch box to the light fixture; the black wires of the switch will be spliced into the black "hot" wire of the cable; the green wire of the switch will be connected to (but not interrupt) the ground wires of the cable. The white "neutral" wire will run only to the light - bad design in my opinion, because the switch uses ground instead of neutral to complete its control circuit, but apparently it meets electrical code or could not be marketed.
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Not sure if this is helpful because it might be different but. I connected the following: On the timer yo have a yellow wire, black wire, blue wire and red wire. I have a three way switch but the way they did my outlet I had mulitple same colors attached at the same point. I connected one black wire to black. White wires to white. Blue to red. And one black wire to the yellow wire Do so enables me to then flick the push button to turn the lights on and off, or use the switch at teh front of the house to turn the lights on and off. When I use the switch the timer indicated if the switch is on or off. When I connected all the black wires together before I could simply turn the lights on only by the timer and not the front door switch. Doing the above configuration worked perfectly for me and has been fine for a year now. Hope this helps. -Nigel
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I'm no expert, but I think it's defective. As soon as I plug mine in, the little red light turns on. It works immediately if it's plugged in and it works without the cord after it's been charged. The problem might be with the unit or it might be with the cord/charger. Good luck.
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Sounds vaguely familiar.If you press the button, does the light turn on at all?Have you tried removing the batteries, waiting a few moments, then reinstalling the batteries?If it's the problem I think it is, I think it's the light's circuitry going into a protection mode. When you charge the light, do you plug the charger cable into power source, then plug the mini-USB plug into the light? Or do you connect the light to the cable first, then connect the cable to a power source?If the former, then I suggest switching to the latter to avoid the problem. I suspect it's an issue of the powered cable touching part of the light it shouldn't if you're not inserting it "cleanly" into the charging port, tripping a protection mode. Sounds vaguely familiar.If you press the button, does the light turn on at all?Have you tried removing the batteries, waiting a few moments, then reinstalling the batteries?If it's the problem I think it is, I think it's the light's circuitry going into a protection mode. When you charge the light, do you plug the charger cable into power source, then plug the mini-USB plug into the light? Or do you connect the light to the cable first, then connect the cable to a power source?If the former, then I suggest switching to the latter to avoid the... » Read More Sounds vaguely familiar.If you press the button, does the light turn on at all?Have you tried removing the batteries, waiting a few moments, then reinstalling the batteries?If it's the problem I think it is, I think it's the light's circuitry going into a protection mode. When you charge the light, do you plug the charger cable into power source, then plug the mini-USB plug into the light? Or do you connect the light to the cable first, then connect the cable to a power source?If the former, then I suggest switching to the latter to avoid the problem. I suspect it's an issue of the powered cable touching part of the light it shouldn't if you're not inserting it "cleanly" into the charging port, tripping a protection mode. « Show Less
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My light just had brown (brown/red) and blue. I used brown/red for positive (red) and blue for negative (closest to black of options provided). It works. I didn't have yellow w/green stripe. Green is usually a ground, but don't know why there would be one on a 12v DC device.
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I had the same problem. Except my lights came with blue and white leads....After searching a few forums, I learned that they will only work wired correctly; meaning connected correctly, they will come on, wired in reverse they will not light up. I tried them both ways and found this to be accurate.
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Yes, I had the same problem. The two smaller wires are the supply voltage for the meter itself. Red is positive, black is negative. I used 5 Volts DC to power mine. The bigger wires are red, blue and black. Red is the voltage sense, blue and black are for the current sense. Black should be connected directly to ground. The blue then becomes the ground for whatever device you are sensing the current on. So, the ground side of the load goes into the blue wire (then through a shunt resistor) and then out of the black wire to ground. Hope this helps! :)
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There is only one way to hook these lights up. It doesn't matter what colors your wires are. It appears that the maker doesn't care either. Since these are diodes the power will only flow one way. In short try one wire on the positive and the other on the negative. If that doesn't work switch them around. I got one white wire and one black... the black was positive...go figure right.
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The label must have changed. Mine had +/- Load. I hooked up the +from the P/S to the +, the - from P/S and LED light (load) both connect to the - on the switch. The + from the LED to the Load. My assumption would be Line/Negative/Load. You should contact the seller to be sure. Good luck!
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Please understand that I'm an astronomer, NOT a licensed electrician! So take my advice at your own risk. Having said that, I spent waaaay too much time having to research this, and finally found a page that gave me the correct connection. Here's what I did, and it worked:Std 110VAC Power Cord >>>>> Female Three-Prong Connector to T8 LED Tube LightGreen>>>>>Yellow W/Green StripeWhite>>>>>Light BrownBlack>>>>>BlueI used this setup to test all of the lights I bought. They all worked with no smoke or heating. My project has been delayed, so haven't installed them yet.Good luck with your project. Please understand that I'm an astronomer, NOT a licensed electrician! So take my advice at your own risk. Having said that, I spent waaaay too much time having to research this, and finally found a page that gave me the correct connection. Here's what I did, and it worked:Std 110VAC Power Cord >>>>> Female Three-Prong Connector to T8 LED Tube LightGreen>>>>>Yellow W/Green StripeWhite>>>>>Light BrownBlack>>>>>BlueI used this setup to test all of the lights I bought. They all worked... » Read More Please understand that I'm an astronomer, NOT a licensed electrician! So take my advice at your own risk. Having said that, I spent waaaay too much time having to research this, and finally found a page that gave me the correct connection. Here's what I did, and it worked:Std 110VAC Power Cord >>>>> Female Three-Prong Connector to T8 LED Tube LightGreen>>>>>Yellow W/Green StripeWhite>>>>>Light BrownBlack>>>>>BlueI used this setup to test all of the lights I bought. They all worked with no smoke or heating. My project has been delayed, so haven't installed them yet.Good luck with your project. « Show Less
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if there are 3only wires in the J box the black should be hot white neutral and green ground. Like to like make sure you ground the fixture. TURN OFF the power first. But your switch may be fed through the J box instead of directly.
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There is not much to the unit, so if the light is on and the dial is to high, you may just have got a faulty one. I would try another outlet, in case there is a minimal power issue on that (to be sure), otherwise if its not heating up on your first try, it maybe defective.
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Donna, Okay, l understand that you trying to light the LED strip using the black lead that was already connected to the strip. You can disregard my previous comment about the red and black wires, however, keep that info handy if you ever decide to do some cutting and rewiring. Let's test the transformer. Insert the short electric wire that came with the transformer into one end of the transformer. Then insert the other end of the short wire (the electric plug end) into your electric outlet. If the outlet is hot and the transformer is good, a small "green" light will appear on the transformer. If not check the outlet for power. If the outlet is hot and the transformer light didn't come on, then the transformer is probably bad, Return it to Amazon for replacement. If the transformer light did come on, then connect the strip black wire (female) to the transformer black wire (male). The strip should then light up. If so, you can then disconnect the strip from the transformer and add the dimmer connection. The dimmer has an "off" position when fully rotated counter-clockwise. Turn the round dial clockwise and the strip should light up. Hope this helps. Doobster
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Sounds to me like you don't have power coming out of the transformer; have you checked it to see if there is voltage present right at the transformer before connecting a cable to it? Is so, check for voltage at the end of the cable before you connect it to the 2400 unit. If so, the 2400 unit is most likely defective. Also, do you have power at the outlet you are using; make sure it is not controlled by a wall switch.
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You will need a meter to troubleshoot the wiring, sounds like there is a chance you need to attach black to blue and black to red instead of the way you have it. BUT FIRST - depress the reset switch in the center of the front panel with a paper clip. I had the same problem and it worked for me!