thanks for this video. My wife hates the fluorescent fixture we have in the kitchen and I am not an electrician, but I am pretty handy. This cleared up a lot of my hesitation with taking on this task, so thank you.
Nice video here is how I think you can improve: When you say positive, negative, and ground it can be confusing versus industry standard jargon: -Black is hot/live (sends electrical current ) -White is neutral ( completes the electrical circuit ) -Bare/Green is ground ( gives current a safe place to go in case of a ground fault ) When you say negative it isn't the wire that is negative but rather the terminal on the voltage source that is negative. The hot wire connects to the negative terminal. Same thing with the live wire and positive terminals. Hopefully this helps your content improve in quality. Have a great day!
Heyyyyyy 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 First of all I want to thank you for even doing the video. Secondly, thank you for risking your life with doing it with one hand. I just hate the light fixture in my beautiful kitchen which is like the one you changed. You have no idea how grateful me and others like me needed this video specially on this fixture here. I was able to see exactly what it is I need to do. Thank you soooo much!!!!!!
Trolls are never happy. Every how-to video I've ever made gets the Expert-Troll, with his "thumbs down" telling me how to do it..... and ya have to wonder why an expert is searching TH-cam for how-to videos.... LOL The worst ones are "product reviews. If you ever make one of these and you're honest about it and the product sucks.... look out. It's a feeding-ground for trolls who know their canned-ravioli! Anyway- thanks for this video. When I took this apart I discovered a serious fir-hazard waiting to happen.
Those little plastics that is suppose to grip, with the little screws that came with the strip light was a waste of my good time, I had to go with the toggle bolts
Since you have open the chamber to access ballast, it will be easy to cut wire to ballast and convert the light to LED light without replacing the whole fixture. It will be a lot easier.
Hi Scott, thanks for this video. I felt pretty confident after viewing it that I could change out the fixture in my closet. However... I don't see any ground wire coming from the house, only the positive and negative wires. I see a green wire on the fixture, but I don't know what I'm supposed to attach it to since there are only two wires coming out of the wall (it's going on the vertical wall above the closet door). What do I do?
Your home may be older. You can install a ceiling metal support brace that screws on first and it has a green ground screw on it that you can then attach that wire to. You could also run a ground wire from the breaker box to the fixture but I would call a electrician for that. I am just a homeowner not a professional electrician but you should definitely have it grounded though.
If I'm taking down a florescent light fixture that I'm replacing, but need to paint the ceiling first, do I need to secure the bare ends of the wires with electrical tape in the meantime during the painting? Light switch will stay off of course, but, for extra safety?
It certainly can't hurt. You could cover each wire with electrical tape or a wire nut while painting. You mainly want to make sure the wires don't touch each other if the power is on.
@@howtoscottkeeley Hi, thank you for the response! I'll go ahead and wrap the ends of the wires just in case. Got some tile coming in, then replacing the flourescents with a light/fan combo later. Thanks again!
i couldn't figure out the copper ground wire that came with the strip light, how to connect to the house ground wire, I didn't know if I was to pigtail it with the strip light copper ground wire or what to do. I see that I should just throw it away and connect the house copper ground wire to that strip light ground screw, correct?
thanks for this video. My wife hates the fluorescent fixture we have in the kitchen and I am not an electrician, but I am pretty handy. This cleared up a lot of my hesitation with taking on this task, so thank you.
Scott. LOVE it. Thank you!!! I am going to go change the flourescent fixture in my closet now. You're awesome! Thanks for making this video!
Nice video here is how I think you can improve: When you say positive, negative, and ground it can be confusing versus industry standard jargon:
-Black is hot/live (sends electrical current )
-White is neutral ( completes the electrical circuit )
-Bare/Green is ground ( gives current a safe place to go in case of a ground fault )
When you say negative it isn't the wire that is negative but rather the terminal on the voltage source that is negative. The hot wire connects to the negative terminal. Same thing with the live wire and positive terminals.
Hopefully this helps your content improve in quality. Have a great day!
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Heyyyyyy 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽
First of all I want to thank you for even doing the video. Secondly, thank you for risking your life with doing it with one hand. I just hate the light fixture in my beautiful kitchen which is like the one you changed. You have no idea how grateful me and others like me needed this video specially on this fixture here. I was able to see exactly what it is I need to do. Thank you soooo much!!!!!!
thank you ,, old lady here , going to attempt the same exact thing .. !
me too , best to us both!
Thank you so much for this video; so helpful! Going to change out our bathroom light this weekend! Really appreciate you making this video!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you sir!!! Love your video, headed to Lowes. My ballast is burnt out too.
If you can do it holding a camera, maybe I have a shot!
Very helpful. Thank you
Thanks! This is a good review to remind me what I need to do to replace my fixture.
Trolls are never happy.
Every how-to video I've ever made gets the Expert-Troll, with his "thumbs down" telling me how to do it..... and ya have to wonder why an expert is searching TH-cam for how-to videos.... LOL
The worst ones are "product reviews. If you ever make one of these and you're honest about it and the product sucks.... look out. It's a feeding-ground for trolls who know their canned-ravioli!
Anyway- thanks for this video. When I took this apart I discovered a serious fir-hazard waiting to happen.
Thank you for helping us with this
Great video.
Very helpful,thank you!
Amen! Haha. I’ve been working on light fixtures and they are small! Haha
great video.
Thanks bud
True Rennaisance man !
Good video
Nice one!
I have one of these over my kitchen sink it stopped working the wires look really bad I'm gonna have to replace this soon
Nothing nicer than fresh wire nuts.
Its always a good thing to wrap electrical tape around the wire nuts for added safety 👌
Good tip!
Those little plastics that is suppose to grip, with the little screws that came with the strip light was a waste of my good time, I had to go with the toggle bolts
Thanks! I got what info I needed!
Since you have open the chamber to access ballast, it will be easy to cut wire to ballast and convert the light to LED light without replacing the whole fixture. It will be a lot easier.
Thats a good ideal but I didn't want to spend a lot of money. It was only 10 bucks and its inside our laundry room. Thanks.
thank you for this!!
Hi Scott, thanks for this video. I felt pretty confident after viewing it that I could change out the fixture in my closet. However... I don't see any ground wire coming from the house, only the positive and negative wires. I see a green wire on the fixture, but I don't know what I'm supposed to attach it to since there are only two wires coming out of the wall (it's going on the vertical wall above the closet door). What do I do?
Your home may be older. You can install a ceiling metal support brace that screws on first and it has a green ground screw on it that you can then attach that wire to. You could also run a ground wire from the breaker box to the fixture but I would call a electrician for that. I am just a homeowner not a professional electrician but you should definitely have it grounded though.
I am installing an old fixture that has no ground screw, so I am going to salvage one from somewhere else.
If I'm taking down a florescent light fixture that I'm replacing, but need to paint the ceiling first, do I need to secure the bare ends of the wires with electrical tape in the meantime during the painting? Light switch will stay off of course, but, for extra safety?
It certainly can't hurt. You could cover each wire with electrical tape or a wire nut while painting. You mainly want to make sure the wires don't touch each other if the power is on.
@@howtoscottkeeley Hi, thank you for the response! I'll go ahead and wrap the ends of the wires just in case. Got some tile coming in, then replacing the flourescents with a light/fan combo later. Thanks again!
Just to be clear black is positive, White is Neutral and ground is green or bare copper wire.
You are right. Thank you! I always say it backwards.
i couldn't figure out the copper ground wire that came with the strip light, how to connect to the house ground wire, I didn't know if I was to pigtail it with the strip light copper ground wire or what to do. I see that I should just throw it away and connect the house copper ground wire to that strip light ground screw, correct?
Either way should be okay.
Good info. Terrible cameraman. Lmao
Nah he did fine