How To Hardwire LED Shop Lights | Sunco LED lights 4ft from Amazon | Easy Simple Garage Hardwire
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I'll be showing you how EASY hardwiring really is.
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This is a simple way on how hardwired these lights into my ceiling.
This is a great idea! Just saved me from changing the light boxes to outlets for adding these lights in the garage.
Awesome! Yeah it can be an easy install if you know what’s going on inside the plug/cord. Pretty much anything with a plug could be hardwired. 🤙🏼
This is EXACTLY the video I was looking for! Yes!!! Thank you so so so much!!!
Your welcome!! So glad I could be of help!!
That makes two of us!
Same!! Been looking everywhere!!
Man this is exactly the video I was looking for. Thanks for posting!
Your very welcome! So glad I could be of help
Just got my sunco lights for the garage. Huge help.
Sweet! I love my sunco products. Haven’t had any complaints
It took me 3 hours to find this video that explained what I wanted to know and how to do it.
Well I’m happy I could be of help. I try to put information in these videos that I feel others would want to know about too as I’ve had specific questions that sometimes I can never seem to find the right explanation.
Considering these for my garage.
They are great lights. Very bright and affordable. I needed over 18 and all of them work perfectly.
Nice garage!
Thank you. The funny part is that as soon as I got my permits signed off on this garage build we ended up selling the home. Now I’m in the process of building a full shop and casita at the new house
Good video, however the edge of the round ceiling fixture junction box should be flush with the finished-side of the drywall, not recessed as shown in the video. There are round outlet box extenders you could add to bring this edge out and fix this problem.
Yeah I agree. The junction boxes were not set far enough down. Something I need to fix in the future when roughing in electrical.
thankyou! awesome explanation and just what I needed!
So happy I could be of help!!
Thank you for the video! I current have hard-wired under cabinet puck lighting. One of the fixtures went bad and I want to replace it, but I can't find the same fixture anywhere due to the age of the lights, about 14 years. Amazon has similar but they are plug-in lights with the cheap thin cords. Can those be hard-wired and if so, how do you tell the hot from neutral? Thank you.
They should be able to be hard wired. The only thing to consider is if the current lights have any transformer that reduces the current that goes to the lights that are there now. A lot of the times the lights, or now a days LED lights, have a transformer to reduce the power because they are low voltage. As far as the lights with a plug or not they all require a hot and neutral wire so they can be wired in. The only way to tell which is which is if you look at the plug on the new light that your going to cut, the way it plugs in with the larger prong on the left and smaller prong on the right… the hot wire is on the right of the plug and the neutral is on the left. If you cut the plug off mark which is in which before you do.
Thanks! Just the info I was looking for; perfectly explained!
Awesome!! So happy I could help.!
Very well done! I will replace an 8' flourescent tube with two 4' LED pieces, as well as replacing four other 4' flourescent tubes. My old lights, spread around the garage, were installed with surface-mounted conduit and junction boxes, and are controlled with one switch at the house entry. It looks like I can just remove the old stuff and follow your lesson for replacing them. As for the two 4s replacing the 8, can I use the Sunco connection, and just hardwire one of the new 4s?
At the 3-minute mark, I was a little confused...
That’s awesome to hear. I bet you’ll love the new ones. Yeah you could hardwire the one and then plug in the second one to it. It’ll work the same as if you plugged one in and plugged the second one in.
Very helpful. Thank you!
Awesome! Glad I could be of help
Great video. How do you tap into an existing LED to hang an additional LED near by? Actually over a work bench.
You could do something similar and wire the new led into the existing one. It just depends on how the existing one is installed. Is it plugged in, wired in, are the wires accessible or run along a path somewhere, etc. basically you just need to tap your neutral wire and hot wire into the neutral and hot of your existing led fixture somewhere before the switch.
Hey man, appreciate the simple and straightforward video. I'm looking to do a very similar installation of six 4ft 20W led strips, thinking of hardwiring in place of the same single-bulb socket. I'm admittedly pretty new with anything electrical, as I tend to leave that (and plumbing) up to the professionals. This looks like nothing I can't handle, though.
The only remaining question I have is how concerned I need to be with wattage, output, etc. If I connect all six, and they're 20W each (or so I understand from the manufacturer's page), that's 120W strung together. Quick google searches seem to suggest most bulb sockets are 60-75W, but if the socket's removed and I'm just hardwiring in, does that mean I can get away with 120W, typically?
It’s not so much as the Watts as it’s the Amps. The LED fixtures are very low amp and don’t draw a lot of current. Watts kinda references the intensity of the light.
I’m currently about to wire in all my lights in the casita I’m building. I’m daisy chaining 12 recessed LED lights and it can handle way more. When you search how many LED lights you can have on one 15amp circuit it says 360 lights at 5watts. So with that math you could hook up like 90 20watt lights 😳? When you think about it, look at offices and stores, they have rows and rows of light all on one switch and sometimes multiple on one circuit. I believe 12 LED shop lights is well within the limits.
Haha I can turn my garage into the sun! Thanks for the info. I need to take some time to study watts/amps/etc.
@@michaelcraig2353 no problem at all. 🤙🏼
This may be a dumb question but what do you do with the ground wire?
You can attach it to the junction box or just cap it. Depending on what lights you choose to install they may or may not have a ground wire. Some junction boxes have a little green ground screw to secure grounds to. But if the light fixture doesn’t have one don’t worry. You could just cap it or connect it to the next ground in the series.
Great vid. My junction box has 14 ga. Do I need to use a light with the same gauge wires? Thanks.
Not necessarily. The light themselves will have differing internal wires and that just depends on how much they draw. So whatever wire the light come with should be good for what the light will draw. If your making a daisy chain connection and having several lights run off that circuit I would just make sure that the 14 gauge wires connect to run the power down the chain. Don’t splice a smaller gauge wire between two larger gauge wires. I hope that makes sense.
Question. I have existing lights I'm looking to replace like you just did. Except in addition to black and white wires- there's also a copper wire ran to the existing light. If I do this, do I just tuck the copper wire up and away and don't worry about it?
That copper wire is your ground. It’s just there for an extra layer of protection if your light fixture requires a ground. Technically the copper wire works in the same way as the white wires, it’s a path for the electricity to pass through and find it’s way to the ground. So it’s nothing to stress over. If the copper ground wire is present it should be secured to the electrical box that they are housed in or onto the bracket that the light fixture has. This is designated usually by a green screw to secure the grounds. Or it could but tucked out of the way if there is no ground to attach it to or screw designated to secure it to. If you decide to tuck it away just make sure it’s not making contact with any bare/exposed parts of the other wire connections.
Good video!!!!! Thanks!!!!
Thank you!! I appreciate it!
What about the ground wire from the wire in the wall?
In this case because of the low voltage required from this fixture it only had a two prong plug, so it doesn’t have a ground to tie into the ground in the wall. Just like many plug in fixtures and appliances that have a two prong plug, when you plug them in there’s nothing going into the third hole in your wall outlet. So in this case it’s left tied up or caped in the ceiling. I usually tie the ground that is in the ceiling to the box because usually there is a screw for that there. Otherwise your okay just tucking it up in the box out of the way. It doesn’t need to be used in this case.
Hello, I just got the Costco Koda shop light that looks pretty similar to yours. I was following your video and when I cut the wire there was two black wires. I just guessed which went to neutral and black. If it works is that enough to know which is hot and which is neutral??
If the inside just has two black wires, it may have some type of chip or converter inside that self corrects. Sometimes when they are manufactured and don’t have any designation to color code, it’s because the light is set up to self correct, and have the proper flow of electricity either way. A lot of the newer lights have that. Other than just guessing, though, I wouldn’t know a way to check it myself. If you are cutting a plug off, the only other reason would be that their intention was never to have it be hardwired therefore, they never designated one color or the other.
Awesome video, thanks man! Did you already have the Romex wires run through the ceiling to the junctions boxes or did you do that for these lights?
I built thing garage from the dirt up. Including framing and all wiring and drywall. So I planned out my lighting and ran all my wiring to these locations before drywalling. I wanted to give myself options so I did lots of boxes in the ceiling and two different circuits. I have a video showing how to run electrical up a wall and one on how to put some new runs through the ceiling on my channel
Did you look at the other type of lights, LED that screw in light traditional lighting, for you garage application before looking at the multiple four footers you installed?
Yeah. I’m aware of those. But I built this garage myself and installed all the electrical/boxes & circuits. So I planned from the beginning to have hardwired lights in the shop. Otherwise like in my living room we have builder installed can lights, I’ll be doing the screw-in adapters and LED upgrades.
Copy. Thanks for your reply
@@marcusjames3035 yeah no worries. In my other video where I install new recessed lights in one of our rooms I have can light I install and they came with the adapters. So if you buy the Sunoco LED lights in 4” or 6” they usually come with all the adapters needed. That was a huge savings.
I know this is an older video but I’m doing this right now with some led shop lights and inside there are 3 wires. These are linkable shop lights too. What do I do with the three wires? Is one just a ground wire? Any help is appreciated.
No problem at all. Are they color coded in any way? My guess is one of the wires is a ground.
@@FortKnoxCohey thanks for the reply. Yea the three wires are blue, brown, and the third is yellow with a green stripe on it. I’d assume the yellow with the green stripe is the ground wire?
@@6453bianchi I did a quick google search and this is what I found out about that combo of wires
Blue, Brown, and Green & Yellow.
Blue - This is the neutral wire (in older installations it may be black). Brown - This is the live wire (in older installations it may be red). Green & Yellow - This is the earth wire (in older installations it may be green).Jul 22, 2020
@@FortKnoxCoI actually broke apart one of the extra plugs to check just to be positive and u are correct. Thanks again man. Gotta all the lights hung now i just gotta link em all and hook up to a power source.
@@6453bianchi oh awesome. Sounds like you go it handled. 🤙🏼🤙🏼
Nicely done video. Are those white covers called lamp bases?
Thank you! They are usually referred to as plate covers, blank plates, fixture box cover, fixture box blank plate. Depends on where your purchasing. I have links to the plate covers on Amazon in my video description if you click on it it’ll take you directly to the item on Amazon. From there you can see related items too.
@@FortKnoxCo thanks found ‘‘em at Home Depot
So, it’s cool to feed my 18 ga LED light with my existing 14-2 wire to replace an incandescent light?
Yes. As long as the connection is secured safely with wire caps or other type of approved connection it’s really no different than plugging it in. I made a video about what’s inside a plug, and you can see the two wires inside just attach to two metal tabs(the 🔌) and the that plugs into the outlet. As long as the connections are secure it’s good.
You just don’t want to do the reverse and go from small gauge wire to the larger gauge wire of an appliance. That pulls too much power from a small hose to a larger hose and could cause the smaller wire to overload and cause it to heat up or fire/hazard. Bigger gauge from the street to the house panel, slightly smaller gauge from
Your panel throughout the house, then smaller gauge usually to the appliance or lights
How do i disable the solar powered porch light my landlord put in.
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Does it go to any switch? If not then it probably has a dusk to dawn sensor on it automatically turn on when the sun goes Down? If that’s the case then it’s not wired in and your only option would be to remove the light. Take it down. If if you don’t want to do that,…… tape something over the solar panel sensor on it, this won’t allow it to charge from the sun and as a result it won’t turn on or have any power.
@@FortKnoxCo Ok it was hardwired. I disconnected one of the wire nuts and put that black goop to cover the exposed wire. It's dry now.
Would that be ok to tuck back in the wall and just put the light back up?
@@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw yeah just cover and secure the wire end. You can put a wire cap over it or what we keeps it from making contact with anything.
@@FortKnoxCo Thx guys!👍
Worked
What if cord has ground
Your can attach that to the ground in the Romex wire you are running.
Been looking for fixture plates for this type of job. Not sure why they don't exist
I found them at Home Depot. They were in the electrical section by the fixtures and plate covers for the walls and plugs.
I would also maybe try Amazon as well. They usually carry random stuff like that. If you look up the name or item description on there.
@@FortKnoxCo Is that the way you showed in the video just by drilling a hole? I was planning on just doing that since it looks pretty clean. Wasn't sure how most people install shop lights
@@JM-sy5qv yep. I couldn’t find a plate specifically with the hole. So I just made my own with a 5” plate over. And I was able to find white painted metal ones. So it was a nice cover too. I’ve seen guys take the blue plastic plate covers and do the same, drill a hole, but it doesn’t look as nice nice it’s blue/plastic and they sometimes don’t come in any size bigger than 4”.
@@FortKnoxCo Sounds good, thanks
Video I’m looking for , but the current wires I see on my ceiling is green, white and red.
Why do I have 3? You only have 2
The green I’d assume is a ground? And the white and red can be your neutral and “hot”. Sometimes the red is a hot wire. Is there a switch that controls these wires? Because I’d get a electrical testing tool, they are very affordable and easy to find, and test the wires with the switch on and off to see which one is your hot wire.
@@FortKnoxCo thank you! Makes sense for that to be ground. Yes it’s my kitchen lights on top of the cabinets. Currently have 2 old school Fluorescent tubes lights that face up and reflect with the cealing. Bought LED linear like yours. But they come with a plug. If it’s the ground does it matter if I don’t use it? Is that safe?
@@brianguzman9443 your saying that not using the ground because the light bar only has a black & white? Then yes. Just make sure your connecting those to the hot and neutral wire. The green in your ceiling is just a ground and sort of like another neutral wire. Incase of a short the electricity has another path to ground out. That’s why most circuits have a neutral and a ground. It’s almost like giving the hot wire two paths out. One primary and one for if it were to short out. So leaving the ground off could be done so long as you have the hot and neutral connected.
@@FortKnoxCo thank you so much for all the information!!
@@brianguzman9443 no problem at all. Thank you for checking out my video
What about the ground wire??
If there is no ground wire in the light then the light doesn’t need it, but the ground wire in the ceiling should be connected to the junction box if there’s a green screw for it. Otherwise I usually cap it and tuck the ground wire out of the way of the other two. Sometimes light fixtures don’t have a 3 prong plug. So they’ve designed the fixture to not need or require a 3rd wire/ground. That’s why some plugs for lights have only 2 prongs and some have 3. The 3 prongs usually draw more amps and they require a ground as a safety measure. These fixtures are led and very low amp/voltage.
@@FortKnoxCo ok thanks for the reply. I am trying to replace a ceiling fan with a pendant basket light that I made, but the only lighting I could find with 3 lights on it for inside the basket was one with a plug (2 wires, no ground).
@@jessicaraber7275 your welcome.
U need ground wire
Some circuits do and some don’t depending on the are you live and your local codes. But some light fixtures don’t have a ground wire like traditional hard wire fixtures. Like having a two prong plug vs a 3 prong plug. The two prong plug doesn’t has a 3rd as a dedicated ground
You need a strain relief on the entrance to the plate.
Yes. Good info.
Do you have any interest in reviewing LED reccessed downlights
Yep! I’m totally down for that! I’m actually looking for a few more things to do some videos on.
@@FortKnoxCo I'm providing free lighting products for video reviews, are you willing to do that?
@@dexinmao3878 yeah. Shoot me an email and we can work out the details. Thefortknoxco@yahoo.com
Great to the point vid.
Question: did you have to run and drop new Romex for the other fixtures from panel?
Thank you. I ran all these wires before I drywalled. I built this from the ground up and placed all of these lines before I closed it up.
@@FortKnoxCo I see. Well fyi for your viewers who may have the same question; my contractor buddy said you can daisy chain 1 romex from an existing fixture for 8-10 light bulbs, you can put 4 to 5 2-bulb fixtures on 1 Romex.
@@SunDevil31 yeah. I kinda went overkill when I ran all these wires. I put it all up there incase I decided to go a different direction later.
@@FortKnoxCo Of course, I wouldve also.