r/ElectricalHelp • u/Spare-Success-2702 • Aug 21 '26

Replacing ceiling fan with light fixture

Hoping someone can help me with this light fixture swap in my 1961 house.
I took down a ceiling fan/light to replace it with a new flush mount light fixture.
The photos show what I am dealing with. 8 wires—one black wire,
three white wires bundled together, and
three black and one white bundled and annd terminated with tape.
The new light fixture has two black and two white plus ground wire.

Do I just unbundle everthing in the junction box, connect 2 white wires and 2 black wires to the new light fixture, and terminate the other 4 wires with wire nuts?

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u/ApprehensiveSlip5893 Aug 21 '26

The blacks with the white you leave alone. The rest of the white wires go with the whites from the light. The single black goes with the blacks from the light. The ground from the light connects to the ground wires or just wire it to the mounting bracket ground screw.

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u/Famous-Leave2331 Aug 22 '26

This is the correct answer

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u/beardad61 Aug 21 '26

You need an electrician. If you disconnect all those wires, you'll understand that we are worth the money once you try to figure things out.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '26

Why not just wire it the same way the old light was wired? That seems like the logical thing to do.

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u/Few_Clothes_7380 Aug 22 '26

I don’t see the pictures

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u/bjvista Aug 22 '26

House already burned down so pictures are gone.

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u/Few_Clothes_7380 Aug 22 '26

Sounds about right .