I’m trying to add a pull chain ceiling fixture to an existing circuit and I’m stuck with figuring out the wiring.
In a spare bedroom I have a ceiling fixture that is controlled by a switch. I ran wiring to a closet where the pull chain fixture is going. Problem is that the switch controls the pull string fixture.
How can I fix this so that the pull string fixture is controlled on its own?
You wired your new light to a switched fixture. Which is fine if you want another switched fixture, but that's not what you want.
So you need to locate a source of unswitched power and wire the new light from there. The light switch is one possible source (if new enough to have neutral at the switch.) It's also possible that the switch is fed from other wires in the light you already ran to, (via a switch loop, old or new style) and one of those is unswitched power.
