Hey bought this mogul socket from ace hardware and got a standard cord from Walmart that has a male end and two wires coming out the other side one is the hot wire other neutral. There are 3 screw on the back of the socket tried winding the wire s on the brass and silver screw both ways and nothing turned on. I'm asuuming the 3rd smaller screw is just a ground but my cord doesn't have a ground. Any ideas how to work this??
mogul socket wiring?
- Thread starter tuerto84
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it will work without the ground
what kind of bulb u have where did u get it how many watts
does it have a self ballast
polyarcturus
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the mogul socet woulnrmaly go into a fixture, ang the ground would simply attach to the fixture via a screw or nut. what ever you attach your mogul socket to attach the ground wire anywhere on your setup wit a bolt and nut(youll have to drilll a hole) as close as you can to the live wires. if you just want to use the socket(like vert) you need to attach a metal plate to the bottom of the socket and attach the ground to that.
Dalek Supreme
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posted this in another thread.
I always remember two words: White=wide.
The wide plug (wether male/female) is the neutral side.The Neutral is white or on a lamp cord the ribbed side.The wide plug/neutral side is white to silver for the neutral terminal tightening screw.
Black/hot is black to brass terminal screw and is used to run thru an optional on/off switch.
black/Hot wire is the center conductor and White/wide/neutral are the threads on an Edison base.
A multimeter is great for conductivity checks and a short is of course disaster.
FAB is right.no self ballast no work.
I always remember two words: White=wide.
The wide plug (wether male/female) is the neutral side.The Neutral is white or on a lamp cord the ribbed side.The wide plug/neutral side is white to silver for the neutral terminal tightening screw.
Black/hot is black to brass terminal screw and is used to run thru an optional on/off switch.
black/Hot wire is the center conductor and White/wide/neutral are the threads on an Edison base.
A multimeter is great for conductivity checks and a short is of course disaster.
FAB is right.no self ballast no work.
but either way it is wired will still work
but i got a bad feeling he has a non ballasted clf kind that goes in security lights that have ballast in fixture
but either way it is best to wire it the correct ways u listed
thats what i thought
i thought i seen a replacement ballast online last night
i will go look and get back to u
brotherjericho
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I'm not sure it would be worth buying a CFL ballast just for one bulb, but that's my opinion.
Thanks for the advice ya I'll return it and get some smaller normal lights mogul are awesome but expensive and require too many things to run them think I'm better if with the smller bulbs day 4 and is and inch tall has two leaves so its enjoying the light i have now anyways thanks guys
thats what i would do
more smaller lights give u better light spread then one big one
get u some 26 actual watt daylight bulbs
make sure it is actual watts not equivalent
seedlings dont need alot of light at first though
got a pic of plant
post it to photobucket or to your email idk i dont use my phone so im no help
have to have a account to see it but now u got it there click on image copy image and paste
or use the pic icon and upload from url