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I have two of these in the ceiling of a 3-car garage:
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It is insufficient lighting to do anything.
I want to replace them with a set of tandem flourescent fixtures like these.
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So I'm not an electrician, but I am kinda handy. Always a little scared with wiring and stuff.
Should it be a pretty straight-forward wire-up? Black... white... green...
Yeah, about as basic as it gets: White to white, black to black, green to ground. Time for a beer.
I wrote you up a step by step but my phone won't post it. More or less what Tfog said.
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Originally Posted by Irving
Nice!
If I don't post after the weekend, I forgot to flip the breaker!
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Originally Posted by rbeau30
make sure you are using a metal ladder and fairly dry shoes ;)
Buy the "quick start" fixtures. You will be much happier in colder weather.
Under normal wiring, just keep the switch off and you'll have no power in light box. Buy yourself a circuit tester (hot stick). Well worth the $10.
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This would get you to the beer faster.
http://www.electronicplus.com/images...s/758B-BOX.jpg
Why would I wait till after the work was done to get into the beer? :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by Ah Pook
I thought about that, I was hoping to do a flush mount over the boxes that the outlets are on to make for a better look.
I would do that, but I have many in the house that would come out to the garage to ask, "Daddy? What are you doing?" and automatically flip the switch.Quote:
Originally Posted by jslo
Probably, depends on how old the house is, if there is a ground there it will probably be bare, white to white, black (maybe red) to the fixture black.Put some 4 or 5K tubes in there and you'll have tons of light. Run the fixtures for an 2-3 hours on first fire up, that's good for the tubes.Quote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30
it's 110v. it only tinglesQuote:
Originally Posted by rbeau30