Grounds can be common so long as you aren't electrically overloading the
ground wire - which, adding the load of a windex light to it, is
unlikely. I'd say go for it. My mast lights come out of the mast to a
terminal strip, there are two ground wires from it back to the ground
buss bar, 4 lig
Andrew,
Any common ground should work.
All the best,
Edd
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Hey listers -
Forgive the elementary wiring question: I’m running a (single) wire from the
running lights circuit on my switch panel to the base of my mast to wire up a
windex light. Can I wire the negative return from the light to a
negative/ground of one of the other circuits? Or does each c