4 way switch with multiple lights

[jtb198]

I’m installing a new light fixture in a location that just had a cover over the box previously. I discovered that this box connected to another group of lights that is controlled by a set of 3 or 4 way switches. In the box is just one 14-3 piece of romex. I hooked up the black hots together and neutrals together and left the red Traveller alone. The light doesn’t work. I confirmed that power is going to the light. It it supposed to be wired a different way?

 

[westward10]

Are you sure it is a lighting point and not an old three way light switch point.

 

[jtb198]

Are you sure it is a lighting point and not an old three way light switch point.

Yes, it’s in the center of the room above my dining room table. It’s meant for a light.

 

[westward10]

Try the red instead of the black.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

There can't be just one traveller, there are always two. So either this is a lighting point with a hot, a neutral and some other unidentified / unused wire, or it is part of the 3-way switch wiring and cannot be used as a light point because it can't have both a hot and a neutral.

As Westward says, the hot at this point might be the red, if there are two switched hots in a run of 14-3 that visits both positions.