We are trying to get two vanity lights and one plug in hooked up in our living room which were not there before. We have the power turned off of course, and then when we turned it on, the lights went on. Then we tried to flick the switch off and the circuit breaker is tripped.
Why is the circuit being tripped?
Power is coming from another outlet in the same room, it was just connected to that one for power; is it possible that that breaker switch may be on overload?
Best Answer
What you've probably done is wire the white and black on either side of the switch, like this:
And when you close the switch, you're creating a short.
What you need to do is wire both blacks to the switch, using the switch to interrupt power to the lights, and wire nut the whites together, creating an always on return path: