Electrical 101: How To Wire Multiple Lights On A Switch (Leg)
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U didn’t wire the lights? How do u attach lights like the title of this video suggest
Nice video again brother ! Keep up the good work !
Perfect! This was very helpful
Glad to hear it! 🙏🏼
Ok. Now, when we install the light fixture into that middle box, please show how to wire that.
Thx !
I have a question. I'm trying to build a guitar side bender using 3 pony cleat sockets. Do you know of a video I could use to wire these three up?
Great straight forward information ✊
glad it was insightful :)
Thank you for teaching and sharing. When you connect your ground wires I find it best to use a green wire nut which has a hole in the top that way you don't have to add a pigtail because your long wire simply sticks out saving saving a minute or two :-)
would love to try one but never have, thanks for the tip!
that was a great review. you are a great teacher. thank you!
Thanks for sharing ❣️❣️
Thank you very helpful and well explained
Glad to hear it!
For someone doing this on their own not working for a company or meeting a code do you think it would be ok to cut the ground wires down to the end of the splice to have more room/ less excess
Would be fine yes. But u don’t wanna cut to short…. What if switch goes bad and or you replace it and need more wire?…. Always do a “service loop” for you or the next guy.
So to wire the light in the middle… do you take the black wire from that light, the black from the switch, and the black from the end light, and twist them together in a wire nut? So 3 wires in one nut? Same with neutral?
yup!
I was just trying to install 2 new vanity lamps in my bathroom in the existing electrical connections, one box have 4 wires and the other just 2 and only one switch, I attach together both black wires and I have 120 v in the second box, however when I attached together the 2 white wires my breaker jumped, for some reason in the second box the white wire is always grounded, I always have continuity between my ground and neutral cables…
older houses can be like that sometimes, or something wired very wrong
I’m working in n a old house and I have two lights on a switch and the power is going into the light instead of the switch first I can’t figure out how to make that work but the home owner says it worked that way at one point in time
So if you want to add a third or fourth light, you would just pigtail the second light to the third and from the third to the fourth light, and so on if you want more than 4 lights?
Yes if you want all of them on 1 switch
correct
Can I do this with ten lights wired in series like this operated by a sliding dimmer switch? I want to add nine LED cans to my garage. My plan is to simply daisy chain off the existing single light and add the dimmer-slider. Yes I want them all in same switch/leg.
yep
@@DailyElectrician thank u 🙏🏽!! Much appreciated!
Also I want to connect 6 recessed led lights to 1 switch..would I use the same method?
yes, for easiest results
Instead of connecting the second light to the first like, could you have both light connect to the light switch so that the all steam from the switch?
yes, just fills up the box more
How do you add a 3rd light fixture? 3rd to 2nd or 3rd to 1st?
you can tap off either one
Can you daisy chain another light to the second new light and so on?
yep
I have the exact opposite, My switch controls a light in the shower and a vent fan in the bathroom, I need to remove the vent fan and make that hot and just keep the switch for the light, would I disconnect the wires from the light or the switch?
would this process be the same for adding another light to a current 2-pole circuit? TY
2 pole circuit? like 277 volt lights?
@@DailyElectrician Hello, sorry novice to all this so I might be using the wrong terminology. I was wondering if the wiring would also apply to lighting that is controlled by 2 switches. thanks!
yes and no, depends how it is wired inside the walls.
Can you explain what a pick tail is?
A pig tail is just taking 2 or more wires and combining them down to one
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😂 i ate at a friends house 😬❤️
Wait so you could just pigtail with a wire nut?
You don’t need the linesmen pliers?
correct
It’s better to pre twist your wires with the linesman. That’s what I’m beingbtaught
Should I go a union or private companies as apprentice
up to you! most say where ever you can get accepted in to
@@DailyElectrician is there anyway I can email you
Don’t you need your line for the switch ? And obviously your switch leg?
yes, but this video is not about that
So what if you can’t get to the light but can get to the switch? Can you wire it into the switch instead?
yeah
@@DailyElectricianIf have 2 ceiling lights connected to a 2 gang switch.
If I want to change this switch to a 1 gang. To operate both lights.
Do I need to wire one light to the other light then that light to the switch?
Or can I just use the existing wiring and let the wires share the ports on the 1 gang switch?
good view
glad to hear that 🙏🏼
I am more confused now than when I first came here 🤦♂️
Same here. No demonstration of wiring the first light and from there connecting the second light.
Hey quick question, how long was the process for you between submitting your application and starting your first paid day in ur apprenticeship? Also did u go the IBEW route?
I’ll tell you right now, he definitely was not a union guy until here just recently. He made a video about joining the union and has been there for few months now.
probably a week or two, started non union.
How about 4 light of one switch?
yep, just repeat the process
Is this a multi part series ??? I thought I was going to see a switch and lights get wired up.
For those whom are not electricians nor handy (I am both), you less than half way explained what you were doing and why. You did not explain why they're tied together and most importantly never showed why actually powers the multiple lights. In this case it was supposed to be a light switch that already is a power source and how you tied it into that. Where is the light receptacle? Where is the toggle switch?? You have to complete the process, bro.
Sorry but that's not what this video was about
I agree the video is incomplete. You didn’t wire a light! You placed some wires in an electrical box. Misleading title.
alright, move on with your life I guess 🤷🏻♂️
I think the point is that wiring the lights and switch themselves is almost given. In relevance to this video.
That wasn’t the point of the video. It’s a how to not a class
hi
U should get a GoPro on ur chest wen u do electrician work at work
You never showed how to tie it into the actual light/device
I'm stealing power from a receptacle to feed 2 LED lights... I went from the receptacle up to the first light, then to the 2nd light, then to the switch...
I think I figured it out... Can anyone confirm? Thanks
POWER from receptacle to LIGHT, then to the SWITCH
STEP 1
White wire from power to the white wire to the light...
STEP 2
Black wire from switch to black wire to the light
STEP 3
White wire from switch to black wire to receptacle power
*** Tape white wire with black tape to indicate it's now a hot wire
POWER from receptacle to LIGHT, to LIGHT, then to the SWITCH
*** How do I add a second light next to the 1st light?
WHAT???!!!!
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Huh? Joe you speak English?
Showing half the job does not help a DIY
Very confused teaching!!!
Not everyone will understand me, so that's understandable. Sorry
tldr
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Bro was doing good at the beginning then just got lazy and explained instead the process instead of showing the inexperienced
Bro…. You didn’t wire anything. This is a rough in
When are you going to show us how to hook up 2 lights like the title of your video says. This video is about hooking up two lights you didn't show how to hook up two lights you talked about wires and possibilities. A video about pig farming would be more helpful.
read the title again. says nothing about installing lights, says wiring. this is wiring. sorry.
i wouldn't need to show you how to hook up 2 lights if i just show you once anyways
VERY INFORMATIVE Just a sugestion,
You need to drop the "GUYS" there's one person watching from his/her device not a "GROUP" O N E! Just say YOU
ok thank you
That seems to be a waste of my time. Don't know what you are talking about.
That was way more confusing than it needed to be and you didn't even show what you said you were going to demonstrate. You didn't wire up anything. You just put wires in boxes and didn't explain what got tied to what or where they went on the fixtures. Sorry, but not good.
You explained absolutely nothing imho
The worst demo ever
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Really a pointless video.
wasted time you didn't hook anything up