How To Install A Fluorescent Light
Adding Fluorescent Lighting to Existing Fixtures
When it comes to adding fluorescent lighting to existing fixtures, it can seem like a daunting task. However, with the right tools and knowledge, it can be a relatively simple process. In this article, we will walk you through the steps of adding fluorescent lighting to an existing fixture.
The Process Begins
-------------------
The first step in adding fluorescent lighting is to gather all the necessary materials. This includes the new fixture, the ballast wire, and any other necessary components such as wires, connectors, and screws. It's also a good idea to have some basic tools on hand, such as pliers, screwdrivers, and wire cutters.
Next, we need to identify the type of fixture we are working with. In this case, we are using a t8 unit with a magnetic ballast. This means that we will need to connect the new fluorescent tubes to the existing socket and provide power to the fixture.
Getting Started
----------------
To begin, we start by identifying the side of the fixture where we will be adding the wiring. We then gather all the loose wires from the existing fixture and prepare them for connection. To do this, we use a technique called "pinching" where we grip the wire between our fingers to secure it in place.
Once we have gathered all the wires, we can start connecting them together. This involves twisting the ends of the wires together using electrical connectors, such as wire nuts or screw terminals. It's also important to make sure that all the connections are secure and will not come loose over time.
Connecting the Wires
----------------------
The next step is to connect the wires to the fixture. In this case, we have two main wires: a hot wire and a neutral wire. The hot wire carries the electrical current from the ballast to the fluorescent tube, while the neutral wire provides a safe path for the return current.
To connect these wires, we use a technique called "hooking" where we hook the end of one wire onto another. This is done by inserting the wire into the socket on the fixture and then twisting it in place using electrical connectors. It's also important to make sure that all the connections are secure and will not come loose over time.
Adding the Cover
----------------
Once we have connected all the wires, we can start adding the cover to the fixture. In this case, we use a technique called "hooking" where we hook the cover onto two small tabs on the side of the fixture. This provides a secure connection that will prevent the cover from coming loose over time.
Installing the New Light
-------------------------
Now that we have connected all the wires and added the cover, it's time to install the new light. In this case, we use a t8 fluorescent tube that is compatible with the existing socket. We simply twist the end of the tube onto the connector and then push it into place.
Testing the Fixture
----------------------
The final step is to test the fixture to make sure everything is working properly. This involves plugging in the fixture and turning on the power. If everything is working correctly, we can proceed with installing the new light in other fixtures.
Tips and Tricks
----------------
One thing that's worth noting about fluorescent lighting is that it requires a lot of wire management. There are many loose wires that need to be managed and secured in order to prevent them from coming loose over time. This is where using wire nuts or screw terminals comes in handy.
Another tip is to make sure that all connections are secure and will not come loose over time. This can be done by using electrical connectors that provide a snug fit, such as wire nuts or screw terminals.
Conclusion
----------
Adding fluorescent lighting to existing fixtures can seem like a daunting task, but with the right tools and knowledge, it can be a relatively simple process. By following the steps outlined in this article, you should be able to add fluorescent lighting to your existing fixture with ease. Remember to always follow safety precautions when working with electrical components, and don't hesitate to reach out for help if you need it.
The Benefits of Fluorescent Lighting
-----------------------------------
Fluorescent lighting has many benefits that make it a popular choice for home and commercial use. One of the main benefits is its energy efficiency. Fluorescent lights use significantly less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs, making them a cost-effective option in the long run.
Another benefit of fluorescent lighting is its long lifespan. Fluorescent tubes can last up to 10,000 hours or more, depending on the type and quality of the tube. This means that you won't need to replace them as often, saving you time and money in the long run.
Finally, fluorescent lighting is also very durable and resistant to shock and vibration. This makes it a great option for use in areas where the lights are subject to heavy wear and tear, such as in industrial settings.
Conclusion
----------
In conclusion, adding fluorescent lighting to existing fixtures can be a simple and cost-effective way to upgrade your lighting system. By following the steps outlined in this article, you should be able to add fluorescent lighting to your fixture with ease. Remember to always follow safety precautions when working with electrical components, and don't hesitate to reach out for help if you need it.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Shannon from host improvements calm in today's video I want to show you how to add a fluorescent light onto an existing row of fluorescent lights so basically we're going to be adding a 4-foot fixture to the end of this 25 foot long roll here whatever it is 20 foot long roll so we've already purchased the fixture and it's it's very similar to the ones we've got here other than it's only four feet long one of the first things that I need to do though is because we're gonna be running some electrical wire to power this new unit up now at the end here I need to knock out this knock up this little knock out there now if your fixture if this end panel will come right off without too much trouble then I would take the end panel right off in this case this one's not that easy to do so I'm just going to knock this out get a hold of it I'm gonna can you so get that out of there and because I'm just passing the wire through this little hole the edges are kind of sharp and I'm just gonna put this little it's really just it's a wire clamp as what it is but it'll have a smoother edge than that sharp edge in that bowl so I'm just gonna stick that in there in the hole to protect the wire I'm not going to tighten the clamp up or anything like that but so that's one of the first things I'm going to do next I'm going to go down I'm gonna get the fixture out of the package so that I can bring it up here and decide how I'm gonna mount it now I've already thought this through the only place I've got a good spot that I can hit the the ceiling joist is right here but I'd like to have the two ends of the fixture secured as well so I'm gonna put actual drywall anchors in on the ends just to be able to screw this at the ends up as well just maybe a little bit of a disclaimer before we get going too far depending on your area your jurisdiction you as a homeowner might be able to do this in your own home or garage with or without a permit so that's one thing you want to check out in some areas might not be able to do at all you're not a licensed electrician so just something to check in to before you you know do this yourself and run into some kind of issues down the road so first of all I'm gonna go down or next I'm gonna go down and I'm going to open up this fixture so our fixture just simply comes in cardboard packaging get it opened up here box and so you should find everything you need other than the bulbs in here and in our case we're gonna be using LED bulbs when it's all said and done but you might be just using normal fluorescent bulbs inside of our package just to make it easier for them to ship everything's just kind of in here it's all what all wired to the ballast and and laying here ready to go so I'm just gonna unwrap these wires a little bit kind of turn this you can see it a little better so you should find usually two of these are untangled to these sockets that will have the same color wire on it usually they're gonna be a lot of times blue okay so they're gonna go to one end and depending on your fixture they might be a little bit different than this one with this one they just simply are gonna snap in down here at the end make sure you got the wires underneath anything any metal that's in the way though snap in there and we just fold these wires kind of over the way the other two are generally gonna be on one wire coming from the ballast and then pigtailed together this is the hot side so same thing they're just gonna snap in down here there's no there's no left or right as far as which one of these goes on what what side they just have to be on the same and so we've got that now inside here as well this manufacturer has the two end pieces we're only going to need one of them so we'll just get rid of one they also this cover goes on a little different than most of the other ones I have in the shop there's a little clip in there to hold the cover on we'll we'll touch on that when it comes time to close things up so so inside here you're gonna find your your wires so your your positive and your negative wires that are feeding the ballast and in this case and a lot of these manufacturers are doing this now there's a simple push and push in plug here that once you your supply lines off just slides in and it's done there's no moretz to use or anything so so that's what we've got here is basically that plug down here we've got the ground screw rate on the housing so we need to ground that to the rest of the circuit which again will you'll see once we get going at that when I put this light up I'm gonna put it up in this direction so I could put this one end cap that we're gonna use on this end and just pushes into the clips on the housing one thing to kind of watch with with these housings all the edges are really sharp so just want to be careful that you don't cut yourself so we basically got this ready to go up here's the holes here while there's a few different ones for mounting to the ceiling I'm gonna use this hole and this hole up here the kind of the easy ones to get out so I'm gonna if they were right in the end I could have mounted it to the actual ceiling and I could if I pulled all this stuff out of the way there is hole there but it's just as easy to use those ones and put it up that way and I'll probably then throw an anchor and rate into the actual wood in the middle that will help hold the whole thing up as well just in case so we've got that basically ready to go like how this one wire has a bit of a kink in it so I'm just gonna straighten that out lay it up there so I'm going to go up the ladder get myself lined up good you know as far as having the row straight I've actually already measured and put some marks up there for that and I'm gonna throw these on just in case so I marked my couple of holes and then I'll put my wall anchors in now because we left that that end panel over there it just simply will fit right over top of that clamp that I used there and I'm just gonna mark this hole this hole so I'll put my wall anchors in I'm just using these these wall anchors right there for drywall so that's what I'm going to put in there and my screws will just simply screw right in to the end of it so okay so we got that all mounted up there now I've just got some regular I took a 14-2 wire and I stripped all the outer sheathing off of it you could buy just go buy some some normal separate wires but I have this so that's what I use buy stripped off the outer sheathing sheathing I should say and I'm just gonna feed these through up here these are gonna go and get our supply from the other fixture remember we're hooking to an existing fixture there I'm just gonna stick these all through the sand up here and through that clap that I put in to protect the wiring and we'll deal with that end in a few minutes okay and that leaves us with this end so what we're gonna have and obviously obviously we've turned off the breaker and everything so we've got no power here that we're dealing dealing with we're not working with a hot hot fixture so and I also took these the white and the black wire and I already stripped the end off actually I've got it a little bit long now so I may be short that out I don't know no it doesn't doesn't give me any kind of a guide here as far as how much to strip off the ends but I can tell I've got over an inch or close to an inch stripped off on both of these and it probably doesn't need to be any more than about five eighths to three quarters of an inch so I'm going to snip those off so I when I insert them in there I don't have any bare wires showing so there's a very easy to follow color code there we've got a spot on this plug to plug in two white wires and two black wires and in this case we've only got one of each so I'm going to stick white wire in there push it in all the way till it bottoms out and the black wire in there as well on this particular plug which the other plug doesn't have on the existing lighting because you've got two sets here this works out nice that if we were feeding from this light now and keep them going down the line two more lights we could just simply bring that wire and plug it in push it into there and and it's all ready to go so those are nice quick adapter there the plug there now we want to make sure this bare copper wire gets hooked to the ground screw of our light I don't think I've ever in a fluorescent seen an actual ground wire that's just about always just a ground screw in the housing and just get it loose enough here to get the ground wire around it like so and take it up like so okay so that grounds this fixture the ballast is already grounded through it through a screw that holds it into place there's all the wires are always kind of a little loose so we you know once we go to put the cover all and may have to fold them up in there a little bit but basically that fixture is all wired we just have to go down and hook the end into our existing wiring so I'm going to move my ladder down right reach this one actually I've got to bring my wires along with me so I can reach them so I'm going to fish them this fixture here is an eight-foot fixture but it holds 4 4-foot bulbs so there's a piece here in the center that we need to get a lot of wires right there I'm just trying to get around all of them and actually my ground I don't have to take rate down to there because the ground and this light is right there that we help to I don't need it to be quite as long I'm just gonna pull it out of the way and let it hang ok so we've got our wires over here this is the connection we're coming to and I'll move my ladder one more time here okay so like what I said a second ago is how that plug-in was set up where we could have just jammed these two wires into it and it would have been done but this one here it has a plug but it doesn't allow for any more than the one connection so what I'm gonna do is actually pigtail this is our supply right here so this is what's feeding from the previous light before it okay this this connection here that I undid is feeding this ballast to this existing light so it's this and here that's the feeder and that's what we want and so what we're gonna do again we've turned the power off we're just gonna splice into it back here so I cut that end off I'll strip these these wires off here a bit same thing with this other end that I cut and I'm stripping off about an inch inch and a quarter something like that okay so we've got that stripped off I think I already stripped this is the two that are coming from the new light that we did now what we want to do is hook all the blocks together and all the whites together okay so I'm just gonna bring these all over here I still don't have my ladder in the right spot I'm gonna move just a little bit more behind myself so all the blacks together we're gonna twist them together and then use them wrap to hold them together I don't know how well you can see that hoping you can just like any other connection you'd be making with them rat so I'm just twisting them all together make sure they're tight with those pliers now that little stub is a little too long for my rap - so I'm just gonna snip them off a little shorter the bare part like that and put on I shouldn't say me rat wire not what call it marette is a brand name wiring that a wire nut is the kind of the generic name for that so we got to do the same thing with the whites trying to hold it over where you can see a little mark so I'm just getting them all close together it's just really hard to do from it's kind of backwards for me for so that you can see orate just twisting them all together making a nice little braid there and I just cut those off shorter if I left those long what happens is when you twist the wire nut on sometimes some bare copper shows underneath the cap and you don't want that because if it shorted up against the ground wire or something else metal then you've got a problem okay so we've now we've connected everything together other than this ballast I've got to plug it in back into this factory connector that was here like so and do I have to go back yeah I've got to hook the grounds together yet but this inside of this light all of this is done so again like I said it's always kind of a wiring mass here you basically just kind of take things and get them somewhat organized in there and I'm gonna put that cover on while I'm right there because we're done in that inside of the wiring box now all these connections we did are perfectly legal inside of this metal housing that the that the fluorescent light comes with it doesn't have to be up inside a junction box separately it can all be inside as long as it's inside of this housing all a lot of fluorescent lights have different ways of putting the covers on this one just kind of clips on a couple of little nubs at each end so there's no screws or clips or anything for this one make sure you get all your wires in there tucked in so they aren't getting pinched anywhere I usually start at the side away from me kind of get them all gathered in and then swing it up towards me and push any loose ones in with my fingers okay so we're done in that side I'm gonna move over here and hook up the ground okay so that's the bare bare copper wire and here's the end of the one that's coming from our all other lights and it's already grounded to the ground screw on that light so I can just simply twist the end of it that was left sticking out here to the end of this actually I can actually shorten this one up in there let's get rid of some of that we're just gonna twist these rounds together now we're mechanically fastened with that ground screw up here already and at the other end so we just get a nice good twist on this of the two ends of those wires together and that's all we really need some areas might require you to put a wire nut on there most don't worry about it on a ground and again we've kind of got all these loose wires we just need to make sure we get them tucked up in there you might have seen this connection here this is from the factory this is just how they connected the ballast wire over here to the negative wire coming off the sockets so that's nothing that we can do anything with so it just has to be tucked up in there just throw the cover on this end as we're working our way towards the new light I guess I could have been something poked me could have been putting the bulbs in - as I come along but I didn't okay so as I said I just kind of get this side hooked on there and then I can worry about all these wires on this side making sure they go in that's all there is to holding that cover on okay so on our new light now the cover for it is held on a little bit differently you'll see on this end there's two kind of little tabs right here they hookean up right here in these two rectangular slots and then actually they would fit on either end and then that little clip that they had included with all this afterwards will go up through this hole and hook into here it's a little bit more of a cumbersome setup but it all works so we'll get this one started by just getting it up in there try to get all our wires tucked up in here nice I don't know if nice is the right word but we need to make sure they all get in there it's the one thing with fluorescents there's just so many loose wires it's too bad they didn't have little zip tie clips mounted up in there that you could hang all that from move it up in there suppose the precip could add them but just having a little trouble with this one where okay schools are in Smuts all in there get my little clip these aren't easiest to get in part of it is housing is flexing so bad and I push it in there there I'll basically had to get it in there and give it a twist to get it to lock in okay so that's all there is to doing the actual electrical and hanging the box now it's as simple as putting the tubes in and maybe I'll just throw the new tubes in the new fixture so you can see that it all works and then we'll have to hit the power so like any Loretto like I said this unit here is a t8 unit with a magnetic ballast so I'm able to just simply put compatible LED tubes into the using the exact same sockets and everything so I got one in there and second one in there and we'll hit the power and voila it actually worked okay so now I've just got to go back and stick the bulbs in those two old existing fixtures but as you can see it's it's not really too difficult to add a fluorescent light especially to already-existing strip of fluorescents and really if you were just hanging a light the wiring is the same you're basically gonna need a you know a hot wire a neutral and a ground to supply the fixture and in this case you would just simply plug them into that plug that was there so it wouldn't be that hard at all in this case we're adding to something existing but so hopefully this video gave you the information you're looking for and if it didn't you could always go and check out our forum and post up a question there about this or any other video or any other DIY question that you have around the home and one of us on there will definitely get to you and give you an answer in pretty short time usually if you want to see us and help us make more of these awesome videos that all you DIY or seem to enjoy you can check out our patreon link which you can click right now below thanks for watchinghi I'm Shannon from host improvements calm in today's video I want to show you how to add a fluorescent light onto an existing row of fluorescent lights so basically we're going to be adding a 4-foot fixture to the end of this 25 foot long roll here whatever it is 20 foot long roll so we've already purchased the fixture and it's it's very similar to the ones we've got here other than it's only four feet long one of the first things that I need to do though is because we're gonna be running some electrical wire to power this new unit up now at the end here I need to knock out this knock up this little knock out there now if your fixture if this end panel will come right off without too much trouble then I would take the end panel right off in this case this one's not that easy to do so I'm just going to knock this out get a hold of it I'm gonna can you so get that out of there and because I'm just passing the wire through this little hole the edges are kind of sharp and I'm just gonna put this little it's really just it's a wire clamp as what it is but it'll have a smoother edge than that sharp edge in that bowl so I'm just gonna stick that in there in the hole to protect the wire I'm not going to tighten the clamp up or anything like that but so that's one of the first things I'm going to do next I'm going to go down I'm gonna get the fixture out of the package so that I can bring it up here and decide how I'm gonna mount it now I've already thought this through the only place I've got a good spot that I can hit the the ceiling joist is right here but I'd like to have the two ends of the fixture secured as well so I'm gonna put actual drywall anchors in on the ends just to be able to screw this at the ends up as well just maybe a little bit of a disclaimer before we get going too far depending on your area your jurisdiction you as a homeowner might be able to do this in your own home or garage with or without a permit so that's one thing you want to check out in some areas might not be able to do at all you're not a licensed electrician so just something to check in to before you you know do this yourself and run into some kind of issues down the road so first of all I'm gonna go down or next I'm gonna go down and I'm going to open up this fixture so our fixture just simply comes in cardboard packaging get it opened up here box and so you should find everything you need other than the bulbs in here and in our case we're gonna be using LED bulbs when it's all said and done but you might be just using normal fluorescent bulbs inside of our package just to make it easier for them to ship everything's just kind of in here it's all what all wired to the ballast and and laying here ready to go so I'm just gonna unwrap these wires a little bit kind of turn this you can see it a little better so you should find usually two of these are untangled to these sockets that will have the same color wire on it usually they're gonna be a lot of times blue okay so they're gonna go to one end and depending on your fixture they might be a little bit different than this one with this one they just simply are gonna snap in down here at the end make sure you got the wires underneath anything any metal that's in the way though snap in there and we just fold these wires kind of over the way the other two are generally gonna be on one wire coming from the ballast and then pigtailed together this is the hot side so same thing they're just gonna snap in down here there's no there's no left or right as far as which one of these goes on what what side they just have to be on the same and so we've got that now inside here as well this manufacturer has the two end pieces we're only going to need one of them so we'll just get rid of one they also this cover goes on a little different than most of the other ones I have in the shop there's a little clip in there to hold the cover on we'll we'll touch on that when it comes time to close things up so so inside here you're gonna find your your wires so your your positive and your negative wires that are feeding the ballast and in this case and a lot of these manufacturers are doing this now there's a simple push and push in plug here that once you your supply lines off just slides in and it's done there's no moretz to use or anything so so that's what we've got here is basically that plug down here we've got the ground screw rate on the housing so we need to ground that to the rest of the circuit which again will you'll see once we get going at that when I put this light up I'm gonna put it up in this direction so I could put this one end cap that we're gonna use on this end and just pushes into the clips on the housing one thing to kind of watch with with these housings all the edges are really sharp so just want to be careful that you don't cut yourself so we basically got this ready to go up here's the holes here while there's a few different ones for mounting to the ceiling I'm gonna use this hole and this hole up here the kind of the easy ones to get out so I'm gonna if they were right in the end I could have mounted it to the actual ceiling and I could if I pulled all this stuff out of the way there is hole there but it's just as easy to use those ones and put it up that way and I'll probably then throw an anchor and rate into the actual wood in the middle that will help hold the whole thing up as well just in case so we've got that basically ready to go like how this one wire has a bit of a kink in it so I'm just gonna straighten that out lay it up there so I'm going to go up the ladder get myself lined up good you know as far as having the row straight I've actually already measured and put some marks up there for that and I'm gonna throw these on just in case so I marked my couple of holes and then I'll put my wall anchors in now because we left that that end panel over there it just simply will fit right over top of that clamp that I used there and I'm just gonna mark this hole this hole so I'll put my wall anchors in I'm just using these these wall anchors right there for drywall so that's what I'm going to put in there and my screws will just simply screw right in to the end of it so okay so we got that all mounted up there now I've just got some regular I took a 14-2 wire and I stripped all the outer sheathing off of it you could buy just go buy some some normal separate wires but I have this so that's what I use buy stripped off the outer sheathing sheathing I should say and I'm just gonna feed these through up here these are gonna go and get our supply from the other fixture remember we're hooking to an existing fixture there I'm just gonna stick these all through the sand up here and through that clap that I put in to protect the wiring and we'll deal with that end in a few minutes okay and that leaves us with this end so what we're gonna have and obviously obviously we've turned off the breaker and everything so we've got no power here that we're dealing dealing with we're not working with a hot hot fixture so and I also took these the white and the black wire and I already stripped the end off actually I've got it a little bit long now so I may be short that out I don't know no it doesn't doesn't give me any kind of a guide here as far as how much to strip off the ends but I can tell I've got over an inch or close to an inch stripped off on both of these and it probably doesn't need to be any more than about five eighths to three quarters of an inch so I'm going to snip those off so I when I insert them in there I don't have any bare wires showing so there's a very easy to follow color code there we've got a spot on this plug to plug in two white wires and two black wires and in this case we've only got one of each so I'm going to stick white wire in there push it in all the way till it bottoms out and the black wire in there as well on this particular plug which the other plug doesn't have on the existing lighting because you've got two sets here this works out nice that if we were feeding from this light now and keep them going down the line two more lights we could just simply bring that wire and plug it in push it into there and and it's all ready to go so those are nice quick adapter there the plug there now we want to make sure this bare copper wire gets hooked to the ground screw of our light I don't think I've ever in a fluorescent seen an actual ground wire that's just about always just a ground screw in the housing and just get it loose enough here to get the ground wire around it like so and take it up like so okay so that grounds this fixture the ballast is already grounded through it through a screw that holds it into place there's all the wires are always kind of a little loose so we you know once we go to put the cover all and may have to fold them up in there a little bit but basically that fixture is all wired we just have to go down and hook the end into our existing wiring so I'm going to move my ladder down right reach this one actually I've got to bring my wires along with me so I can reach them so I'm going to fish them this fixture here is an eight-foot fixture but it holds 4 4-foot bulbs so there's a piece here in the center that we need to get a lot of wires right there I'm just trying to get around all of them and actually my ground I don't have to take rate down to there because the ground and this light is right there that we help to I don't need it to be quite as long I'm just gonna pull it out of the way and let it hang ok so we've got our wires over here this is the connection we're coming to and I'll move my ladder one more time here okay so like what I said a second ago is how that plug-in was set up where we could have just jammed these two wires into it and it would have been done but this one here it has a plug but it doesn't allow for any more than the one connection so what I'm gonna do is actually pigtail this is our supply right here so this is what's feeding from the previous light before it okay this this connection here that I undid is feeding this ballast to this existing light so it's this and here that's the feeder and that's what we want and so what we're gonna do again we've turned the power off we're just gonna splice into it back here so I cut that end off I'll strip these these wires off here a bit same thing with this other end that I cut and I'm stripping off about an inch inch and a quarter something like that okay so we've got that stripped off I think I already stripped this is the two that are coming from the new light that we did now what we want to do is hook all the blocks together and all the whites together okay so I'm just gonna bring these all over here I still don't have my ladder in the right spot I'm gonna move just a little bit more behind myself so all the blacks together we're gonna twist them together and then use them wrap to hold them together I don't know how well you can see that hoping you can just like any other connection you'd be making with them rat so I'm just twisting them all together make sure they're tight with those pliers now that little stub is a little too long for my rap - so I'm just gonna snip them off a little shorter the bare part like that and put on I shouldn't say me rat wire not what call it marette is a brand name wiring that a wire nut is the kind of the generic name for that so we got to do the same thing with the whites trying to hold it over where you can see a little mark so I'm just getting them all close together it's just really hard to do from it's kind of backwards for me for so that you can see orate just twisting them all together making a nice little braid there and I just cut those off shorter if I left those long what happens is when you twist the wire nut on sometimes some bare copper shows underneath the cap and you don't want that because if it shorted up against the ground wire or something else metal then you've got a problem okay so we've now we've connected everything together other than this ballast I've got to plug it in back into this factory connector that was here like so and do I have to go back yeah I've got to hook the grounds together yet but this inside of this light all of this is done so again like I said it's always kind of a wiring mass here you basically just kind of take things and get them somewhat organized in there and I'm gonna put that cover on while I'm right there because we're done in that inside of the wiring box now all these connections we did are perfectly legal inside of this metal housing that the that the fluorescent light comes with it doesn't have to be up inside a junction box separately it can all be inside as long as it's inside of this housing all a lot of fluorescent lights have different ways of putting the covers on this one just kind of clips on a couple of little nubs at each end so there's no screws or clips or anything for this one make sure you get all your wires in there tucked in so they aren't getting pinched anywhere I usually start at the side away from me kind of get them all gathered in and then swing it up towards me and push any loose ones in with my fingers okay so we're done in that side I'm gonna move over here and hook up the ground okay so that's the bare bare copper wire and here's the end of the one that's coming from our all other lights and it's already grounded to the ground screw on that light so I can just simply twist the end of it that was left sticking out here to the end of this actually I can actually shorten this one up in there let's get rid of some of that we're just gonna twist these rounds together now we're mechanically fastened with that ground screw up here already and at the other end so we just get a nice good twist on this of the two ends of those wires together and that's all we really need some areas might require you to put a wire nut on there most don't worry about it on a ground and again we've kind of got all these loose wires we just need to make sure we get them tucked up in there you might have seen this connection here this is from the factory this is just how they connected the ballast wire over here to the negative wire coming off the sockets so that's nothing that we can do anything with so it just has to be tucked up in there just throw the cover on this end as we're working our way towards the new light I guess I could have been something poked me could have been putting the bulbs in - as I come along but I didn't okay so as I said I just kind of get this side hooked on there and then I can worry about all these wires on this side making sure they go in that's all there is to holding that cover on okay so on our new light now the cover for it is held on a little bit differently you'll see on this end there's two kind of little tabs right here they hookean up right here in these two rectangular slots and then actually they would fit on either end and then that little clip that they had included with all this afterwards will go up through this hole and hook into here it's a little bit more of a cumbersome setup but it all works so we'll get this one started by just getting it up in there try to get all our wires tucked up in here nice I don't know if nice is the right word but we need to make sure they all get in there it's the one thing with fluorescents there's just so many loose wires it's too bad they didn't have little zip tie clips mounted up in there that you could hang all that from move it up in there suppose the precip could add them but just having a little trouble with this one where okay schools are in Smuts all in there get my little clip these aren't easiest to get in part of it is housing is flexing so bad and I push it in there there I'll basically had to get it in there and give it a twist to get it to lock in okay so that's all there is to doing the actual electrical and hanging the box now it's as simple as putting the tubes in and maybe I'll just throw the new tubes in the new fixture so you can see that it all works and then we'll have to hit the power so like any Loretto like I said this unit here is a t8 unit with a magnetic ballast so I'm able to just simply put compatible LED tubes into the using the exact same sockets and everything so I got one in there and second one in there and we'll hit the power and voila it actually worked okay so now I've just got to go back and stick the bulbs in those two old existing fixtures but as you can see it's it's not really too difficult to add a fluorescent light especially to already-existing strip of fluorescents and really if you were just hanging a light the wiring is the same you're basically gonna need a you know a hot wire a neutral and a ground to supply the fixture and in this case you would just simply plug them into that plug that was there so it wouldn't be that hard at all in this case we're adding to something existing but so hopefully this video gave you the information you're looking for and if it didn't you could always go and check out our forum and post up a question there about this or any other video or any other DIY question that you have around the home and one of us on there will definitely get to you and give you an answer in pretty short time usually if you want to see us and help us make more of these awesome videos that all you DIY or seem to enjoy you can check out our patreon link which you can click right now below thanks for watching\n"