and welcome back to Moore Approved i'm James today we're going to install
lighting fixtures there's a bottle it's in the back and
welcome back to Moore Approved i'm James today we're going to be installing some
lighting fixtures first and foremost most important this
is very dangerous you can hurt yourself severely or
possibly even die from electrocution if you do this improperly
also you can burn down your house and lose all of your stuff
and if the insurance company suspects that you installed the lighting fixture
that caused it they may not replace your home and
you're living in a cardboard box so having said that just be aware
this is for demonstration purposes only it only equates to the u.s power grid
and if somebody who was not qualified
installed the electrical that you are about to
touch and they did it improperly you may still burn everything down even
though you think you've done it properly keep that in mind bear that in mind and
remember always consult a certified licensed professional before
attempting anything like this at home we can install a clapper in a
future episode maybe no we're not installing a clapper if you
can't figure out how to install a clapper do not install lighting fixtures
so the tools that you're going to need for this installation are actually
pretty basic the most important one is you want a
non-contact voltage tester this is to make sure when you flip your
breaker to the off position important do the breaker not a light
switch because if somebody hooked up the light switch improperly
you are going to get zapped so you need to make sure that you're flipping the
breaker and we will go out into the garage and
flip that breaker off before we get started
as you can see it's already off so we'll show you that so you want to find your
breaker that says kitchen sealing turn that one off and after you do that
you still want to use your voltage sensor just to make sure it's on the
same breaker so you don't get electrocuted there's a link down below
to this it does come with the batteries
everything you need you get close to any sort of power
this thing is going to go bb bb beep to let you know that it is hot
and do not touch it in the unlikely scenario that you're
changing out multiple lighting fixtures in the same room
and one of the fixtures is on a different breaker from the other one and
you grab a hold of it that may be all she wrote so definitely
pick one of these bad boys up the other things that you're going to
need are just a couple of just regular screwdrivers
you need a flathead screwdriver and you're going to need a phillips
screwdriver and beyond that you're going to need a
ladder or step stool or something to get up into the air
and just be careful and don't fall off and kill
yourself let's get these open and see what we're working with
light bulbs we're going to open these pendant lights up first which are going
to go above our little bar counter thing breakfast
bar whatever you want to call it this is
going to be pretty basic you have a cage you have a wire light
bulb goes in the wire this gets put into the ceiling and there
should be some wires in here that you're going to have to connect
actually i can say definitively there will be wires in here there shouldn't
not shouldn't be anyway so we'll get this open and
there's a couple of screws that we have take out i'm going to cheat
this is going to be held onto the ceiling from two screws
you don't want to lose those so keep track of them this is going to be your
mounting plate and this is actually your earth ground
wire
these are the two wires that you're going to be connecting to the wires that
are up in the fixture itself so black is hot
white is not in your bare ground make sure that if
something touches where it should not it should theoretically trip your
circuit breaker so your house doesn't burn down
there are some mounting screws
and remember if you're happy or not happy
you need one of these cars to let people down light bulbs we don't probably don't
need to open those yet all right this one has some wire nuts in
it so you may need wire nuts for the other one but i guarantee there's wire
nuts on the wires that are up in there if not you're gonna need wire nuts
this one has a similar mounting plate it does go into the fixture a little bit
differently
this is going to be held into place by a couple little thumb screws and
you have your hot wire your neutral and your earth ground is also in there
but it's just wrapped around a couple of the other wires for shipping
i guess that's your earth ground let's go ahead
and move these out of the way and open up the ceiling get started just
pop this off the ceiling and pop this off the ceiling so this is
what it looks like after you pull off that cover
this little plastic bracket needs to come off
just loosen it up and this should come out sometimes you're going to have to
actually take and take the screw all the way out to
get it out but with this one you didn't have to
at this point you want to fire up your electrical sensor
make sure that this does not beep and does not have
any power going to it so we're good and if it is beeping then you know it's
hot and if it is flashing then you know there's hot wire in there
but it's not so we're fine
all right these are the wires on the inside we've already checked and ensured
that the breaker that we flipped was proper with that voltage sensor and this
is going to be your hot it's black this could be your white that's not hot
and then this is going to be the earth ground that you're putting
to the fixture itself so you want to put your wire through the center of this
plate and then we're going to take out these
screws from the ceiling and then put the screws back in
through the
all right so that's all tightened up now all we have to do is connect our wires
and we're pretty much done this is going to be as simple as connecting
the white lead to the white lead the black lead to the black lead this bare
wire will be connected to that bare wire to
give mine a little twist to get it started
wrench that down pretty tight until the wires start twisting and then you want
to give it a pull to make sure nothing comes loose because
that would be a bad connection and that's what causes fire
black lead all right and now all we have to do is
our two bare wires
make sure it's a positive connection all we have to do is feed this back up in
through the center and as you can see these are all firm
connections let's go ahead and feed that up
and feed the rest of this up then we just have to line up the
screws on the sides you'll see right there and that one's finished
and who knows if this cable is ever going to straighten out but hopefully it
will so we'll go ahead and put on the cage
just basically take that off set your cage into place
tighten that into position so we're going to replace an existing
fixture this is pretty easy basically all you do is unscrew the
center depends on your light but you're going to want to take
everything down there's going to be a couple of screws that you have to take
out and then it's going to be ready to
attach the new fixture so let's go ahead and get this out of the way
and get the new one up
good thing we don't need those anymore for this system we'll go ahead and take
these bulbs out and set those aside there's a couple
little screws so we're just going to loosen that one
and then we're going to loosen that one and then this is going to turn and then
drop down and now we're going to go ahead and
loosen that other one and then this should just turn
and then drop down so we're going to use our sensor and we're just going to
verify that there's no power
all right and we're good to go we can start taking these wire nuts off
and then we'll also be sure that we save these wire nuts we can use these ones
again and we're going to go ahead and take
these two mounting screws out we don't need these ones anymore
we have a new brack to put in place
we have our new bracket go ahead and feed the wires through the center
everything lines up i'll go ahead and put the screws into place
you're gonna have to hold this in the air with one hand and basically
get these connections started it would be good if you have two people to help
you out i'm gonna go ahead and i'm gonna start
with the ground wire
nice firm connection now you're gonna take your second wire
make sure you have a nice firm connection give it a little tug
do our third wire
nice firm connections on all three we'll go ahead and feed this back up through
this opening
i have to line up oh these
set screws
all right and she's set
now to flip the breaker and test it out
so that about wraps it up for more approved as you can see installing light
fixtures is actually fairly simple fairly easy consult a
professional before undertaking anything like this
if you do do it yourself be confident in what you're doing if you're not
confident what you're doing you probably shouldn't do it anyways i've got links
in the description down below for everything that i use today
if you guys have any questions please feel free to leave them if you guys come
across something that i didn't show in the video i probably
don't have the answers for you there's probably some other youtube videos out
there or you could do some google searching
or just consult a qualified electrician before undertaking any additional
projects thanks again for watching i'm James till next time see you then