Multiple Fixtures On Switch Loop

Multiple Fixtures On Switch Loop

I'm accepting a botheration with a about-face bend and I got into a "discussion" with addition architect today about how electricity works.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't I be able to accept 2 ablaze accessories on a about-face loop?

He says no because you accept no neutral. This aboriginal diagram is a basal about-face bend that works accomplished in the bath I'm alive on. Inside the ablaze box the hot line-in is angry to the white wire to the about-face (s/b coded hot). The about-face sends ability aback to the accoutrement on black. So aback the about-face is closed, ability is connected from band to fixture, again angry to white/neutral aback to GFCI.

I assumption area we alter is he believes white/neutral is somehow altered from black/hot. I accept that you charge to actualize a bankrupt circuit. I accept that if I ran black/hot anon to the fixture, again on to the about-face and angry the neutral's, this would assignment absolutely the aforementioned because aback the about-face is bankrupt the ambit is complete. I additionally accept that ablaze accessories and switches accept no polarity. Again, all they do is abutting or complete the circuit.

O = Attached to terminal or light fixture wire
X = Tied together in box

O---w---------------O O---b-------------O

O---b----------------X---w/h------------O

GFCI/LINE............. Light..................... Switch

So, here's my problem. Back I add an added ablaze accoutrement to the about-face loop, I get ability at the new fixture, the additional one in the loop, but the aboriginal one in the run doesn't work. My acquaintance says it's because I'm alone affairs atramentous into the fixture. There's no neutral. I accept I could actualize a about-face bend with 10 accessories on it, tie all the white affairs calm and tie all of the atramentous affairs to the ablaze accessories and put a about-face at the end. The alone botheration is, it doesn't amount what I believe, back I wire this the way I anticipate it should work, it does not.

O-----w-----O O-----b--------O O-----b------O

O-----b------X-----w/h--------X-------------O

GFCI/LINE....Light.................. Light............ Switch

So, again, is it accessible to wire added than 1 accoutrement into a about-face loop? If so, how?

It's alone important because it's a absolutely old abode with a drywall arrangement that will be adequately difficult to match. So I'm aggravating to abstain acid any holes in it.

And by the way, I AM aggravating to get an electrician out to my job to booty a attending at it. But I'd absolutely like to break this botheration myself, if I can.