27 Nov 06, 11:55 am
if you only used 3 wires then that 4th bare wire is the ground it should be attaches to the fixture as a ground and the white is the neutral round prong, and the red and black are your "hot" leads and each should carry 120volts and be attached to the flat blades. technically you don't need the ground but it's a good saftey. on a sidenote i finally got my outlet all set up and good to go also, it took me a couple of weeks b/c of a big freezing up incident at my house.