Great idea with the hook and the chain as I put light fixtures up alone all the time. Also, ribbed wire to neutral thank you. I do advise however, ALL THE TIME, turn the breaker off not just the lightswitch!
Very helpful video....my wires originally had labels on them but they fell off so this video was very helpful in allowing me to identify the correct wire.
My light fixture has 4 wires: load, neutral and ground + copper bare wire but ceiling box only has two (white and yellow). Where does neutral go if white is ground and yellow is load ?
I SEEN A FIXTURE WITH BLUE BROWN AND YELLOW/GREEN GROUND HOW COME THEY DONT USE A WHITE FOR NEUTRAL BLUE IS LINE 3 208 VOLTS 3 PHASE SERVISE BROWN IS LINE 1 480 VOLTS 3 PHASE SERVICE THANK
I just got a new light fixture and the ground wire is a 4" copper wire wrapped around the green screw on the plate, but it isn't connected to the fixture. There is no other ground wire on the fixture either. How should this little wire be connected to the fixture???
so both wires are clear coming from my ceiling light. One wire has typed writing on its surface but no ribs are present. It says 18 gauge 300 v, I'm assuming this is neutral wire. The other wire has no writing on it at all and i believe this is the hot lead. But in this case does it really not matter which is used as neutral wire and which is used as hot wire. The plastic insulation around both wires is clear (see through) the wire itself is aluminum not copper.
Hi Gary, The neutral wire is normally identified somehow either with writing or ridges, if connected in reverse hot to neutral the fixture will still work but you increase the chance of getting a shock when handling the fixture or changing the bulb, by reversing polarity (Hot to neutral) the ridges in the socket are now charged instead of the little tab in the bottom of the socket, hope this helps. Cheers!
@@mjahandyman6390 I have the same problem. I have three clear wires coming from ceiling light. Hot, neutral and ground but they are not marked and no ridges. what happens if I accidentally hook up the ground wire from the ceiling light with the hot black(hot) wire from the ceiling?
@@mjahandyman6390 so there's the answer to all of these questions about which wire: get a multimeter and see which wire has continuity to the center tab in the socket, it's the hot.
Thank you, thank you for a brief video with unnecessary chatter. Just put a chandelier up and you helped me connect the wire correctly. Question, what happens if the wires are reversed? Would the light not work at all? BTW Subbed.
I have alight fixture that has a blue and a brown wire with a separate mini green yellow ground wire. My house has white and black. Which wire do i connect to the hot black wire? I'm guessing the blue.
Informative vid. However, I have a three terminal lamp with 4 wires. Picture this. Two brown wires that are the cord wires to the base of the lamp. The other two wires lead to the small bulb at the base of the lamp with a white and black wire. I purchased a new 3 terminal plug but have struggled to wire it correctly without blowing a breaker. Any suggestions? Thank you.
I have black and white from the house and green black and white from the led light. The white from the light is a neutral. What do I do with the neutral?? Do I need it?
I'm confused. My simple light fixture (no built-in switch) has two clear/silver wires and there is continuity between them (tested), and in the ceiling I have one hot and one neutral, no red (2nd hot)... If I connect either way then won't it short out the circuit??
It is an 8-light chandelier. There are a couple bulbs in the sockets. I thought there should not be continuity between the wires. Worried there is a crossed wire in the fixture and it might short the circuit.
Ok.. how about if I have 3 wires coming out of the ceiling; white, black and red. White to white, black to black and is red ground? What If the fixture I’m connecting only has 2 wires, White & black? What do I do with the red wire coming out from ceiling? Do I find a spot on the new fixture and connected to ground?
Very informative video,Thank you. I am trying to install a pendant light to a lamp cord. Problem is my pendant light has 3 clear wires and a copper wire. When I strip my lamp cord i only end up with 2 wires. On the pendant the copper wire is a ground and 2 of the clear go to my lamp cord brown wires so then what is the 3rd clear wire?
What if you have an old lighting fixture that doesn’t have ridges on either wire? No stripe either. They’re exactly the same.... also, there’s no ground wire coming from this fixture
you can test the fixture with an OHM reader, turn off the power first, disconnect the fixture from the wall, when looking in the light socket the tab in the bottom of the socket is connected to the live wire and the side ridges in the socket are connected to the neutral wire. as for the missing ground wire, if the metal box in the wall is grounded, once you screw the metal fixture (assuming it's metal) to the metal box with metal screws it will be grounded. hope this helps, if your not comfortable performing this test call an electrician or a Handyman that knows electrical.. Cheers
But what if you have two white wires and neither have ridges? So far I cant see any different on either wire or where they hook in....no neg or pos markings.
Make sure the power is turned off by flipping the circuit breaker controlling the light fixture to the off position. After connecting the wires of the new light fixture to the circuit wires in the ceiling/wall box using twist-on wire nuts, you can do the following simple test using a non-contact voltage tester to find out whether your light fixture is installed correctly: With no light bulbs installed yet into the light fixture, turn on the circuit breaker and then the light switch. If the wires are connected correctly, then the voltage tester will only beep when you place it closer to the center pin or tab inside the light bulb socket, meaning that the center pin is hot but the threaded shell of the socket is neutral. If the wires are reversed, then the voltage tester will beep when you touch the threaded shell of the light bulb socket, indicating that the entire socket is energized (potential shock hazard when installing or replacing light bulbs).
How to find out if the hot and neutral wires are correctly wired or reversed? After connecting the light fixture wires to the circuit wires in the ceiling/wall box using twist-on wire nuts, you can do the following simple test using a non-contact voltage tester to find out whether your light fixture is installed correctly: With the circuit breaker still turned off and no light bulbs installed yet, turn on the circuit breaker and then the light switch. If the wires are connected correctly, then the voltage tester will only beep when you place it closer to the center pin or tab inside the light bulb socket, meaning that the center pin is hot but the threaded shell of the socket is neutral. If the wires are reversed, then the voltage tester will beep when you touch the threaded shell of the light bulb socket, indicating that the entire socket is energized (potential shock hazard when installing or replacing light bulbs).
The light fixture will still work, but it would be a sock hazard. After connecting the light fixture wires to the circuit wires in the ceiling/wall box using twist-on wire nuts, you can do the following simple test using a non-contact voltage tester to find out whether your light fixture is installed correctly: With the circuit breaker still turned off and no light bulbs installed yet, turn on the circuit breaker and then the light switch. If the wires are connected correctly, then the voltage tester will only beep when you place it closer to the center pin or tab inside the light bulb socket, meaning that the center pin is hot but the threaded shell of the socket is neutral. If the wires are reversed, then the voltage tester will beep when you touch the threaded shell of the light bulb socket, indicating that the entire socket is energized (potential shock hazard when installing or replacing light bulbs).
It’s confusing the explanation is confusing all I need to know is if the white go with the white amd of the red goes with the black I get confused when I see red wire when I’m trying to hand lights fixtures
Great idea with the hook and the chain as I put light fixtures up alone all the time. Also, ribbed wire to neutral thank you. I do advise however, ALL THE TIME, turn the breaker off not just the lightswitch!
Great tip!
Installing light fixture with no colored wires. Thanks for answering my question!!!
Thanks for the video...very helpful. At 1:34 it sounds like a vehicle in the background revving the engine and exploding!
This was not something that you specially covered but using the hook to hold the fixture while you are dealing with wires is genius.
Know your place woman. It's not discussing electrical wiring with men.
Haha, right after trolling and being a smart ass, I just got fucked up by a ground wire. Karma.
@@anopoabednego6173” CONSEQUENCEEEES”
Thank you
We didn’t know which wire and this helped
God bless you
Glad it helped
Very helpful video....my wires originally had labels on them but they fell off so this video was very helpful in allowing me to identify the correct wire.
Great to hear!
GREAT idea about the hook. I wonder why they didn't make the live black and the neutral in white.
THANK YOU. Love the hook idea as well
Finally a quick informative video!
Thank you🙏
Thank you! Solved my problem in no time.
Glad it helped!
Great 👍 I didn't know that one had rigging on one of those wires
Exactly what I needed, thanks!
smooth to hot, ridges to neutral.
wire with ridges to neutral, thank you Sir!
You are welcome
Very nice video sir...your R the man!!!
thankyou you saved my life
Thanks for taking the time to make this video, very helpful!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Good short vid.thank you sir
Thank you, it finally worked👍
You saved the day. Thank you
Smooth to black
Thanks
found this helpful, thank you!
Thanks for the great video, it really helped me out !!😁
Glad it helped!
what about the ground wire
My light fixture coming out of the ceiling has two black wires. What does that mean ?
Thanks man!! Appreciate the help!!
Very, very helpful
My light fixture has 4 wires: load, neutral and ground + copper bare wire but ceiling box only has two (white and yellow). Where does neutral go if white is ground and yellow is load ?
Thank you so very much you’re awesome ❤️
I SEEN A FIXTURE WITH BLUE BROWN AND YELLOW/GREEN GROUND HOW COME THEY DONT USE A WHITE FOR NEUTRAL BLUE IS LINE 3 208 VOLTS 3 PHASE SERVISE BROWN IS LINE 1 480 VOLTS 3 PHASE SERVICE THANK
This was very helpful sir, thank you
Glad it helped
Great video. Stupid question but how to I connect the copper wires from ceiling and from light fixture? Thank you
I just got a new light fixture and the ground wire is a 4" copper wire wrapped around the green screw on the plate, but it isn't connected to the fixture. There is no other ground wire on the fixture either. How should this little wire be connected to the fixture???
What about the ground wire ?!
There’s a copper wire also connected to fixture , where does that go?
thanks very helpful
so both wires are clear coming from my ceiling light. One wire has typed writing on its surface but no ribs are present. It says 18 gauge 300 v, I'm assuming this is neutral wire. The other wire has no writing on it at all and i believe this is the hot lead. But in this case does it really not matter which is used as neutral wire and which is used as hot wire. The plastic insulation around both wires is clear (see through) the wire itself is aluminum not copper.
Hi Gary, The neutral wire is normally identified somehow either with writing or ridges, if connected in reverse hot to neutral the fixture will still work but you increase the chance of getting a shock when handling the fixture or changing the bulb, by reversing polarity (Hot to neutral) the ridges in the socket are now charged instead of the little tab in the bottom of the socket, hope this helps. Cheers!
@@mjahandyman6390 I have the same problem. I have three clear wires coming from ceiling light. Hot, neutral and ground but they are not marked and no ridges. what happens if I accidentally hook up the ground wire from the ceiling light with the hot black(hot) wire from the ceiling?
@@DB-bp7hh did u find out? lol
@@mjahandyman6390 so there's the answer to all of these questions about which wire: get a multimeter and see which wire has continuity to the center tab in the socket, it's the hot.
There was no mentioned made about a third bare copper wire, but we see it in the video.
Thank you, very well explained
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks a lot!! this video really helped me 👍
Thank you !!!! So much!!
Thank you
What about when the pendant comes with a white, black, bare copper, AND a green wire
Hi ,
For light bulbs, if we put reverse wire.
Like, in place of red , Blue and in place of blue red ..
It still work ?
Thank you so much for this man!!
Happy to help!
Very helpful was wondering which was hot wire
Very helpful video 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, thank you for a brief video with unnecessary chatter. Just put a chandelier up and you helped me connect the wire correctly. Question, what happens if the wires are reversed? Would the light not work at all? BTW Subbed.
It would trip the circuit breaker when you turned the light switch on
@@TearsInReign Thank you
No polarity...
As long as d 2 wires coming fr. Ur junc. Box Dos not short no prob.
Ur breaker wil not trip off and It will still work
I have alight fixture that has a blue and a brown wire with a separate mini green yellow ground wire. My house has white and black. Which wire do i connect to the hot black wire? I'm guessing the blue.
Informative vid. However, I have a three terminal lamp with 4 wires. Picture this. Two brown wires that are the cord wires to the base of the lamp. The other two wires lead to the small bulb at the base of the lamp with a white and black wire. I purchased a new 3 terminal plug but have struggled to wire it correctly without blowing a breaker. Any suggestions? Thank you.
Thank you 🙏
Simple explanation and Thanks for sharing the video. You mentioned that you hooked the wires without switching main line power. Is that safe?
Not recommended, its always safer to turn off the breaker.
@@mjahandyman6390 Thank You So Much for your time to answer my question!
Thank you sir!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
thanks this was helpful
Glad it helped
Awesome
I have black and white from the house and green black and white from the led light. The white from the light is a neutral. What do I do with the neutral?? Do I need it?
I'm confused. My simple light fixture (no built-in switch) has two clear/silver wires and there is continuity between them (tested), and in the ceiling I have one hot and one neutral, no red (2nd hot)... If I connect either way then won't it short out the circuit??
Was there a light in the fixture when you tested for continuity ?
It is an 8-light chandelier. There are a couple bulbs in the sockets. I thought there should not be continuity between the wires. Worried there is a crossed wire in the fixture and it might short the circuit.
Ok.. how about if I have 3 wires coming out of the ceiling; white, black and red. White to white, black to black and is red ground?
What If the fixture I’m connecting only has 2 wires, White & black? What do I do with the red wire coming out from ceiling? Do I find a spot on the new fixture and connected to ground?
Red is NOT ground, it could be another hot wire..
Isn't it when you're dealing with ac there's no polarity, unlike dc, so either way it will work? Do you really need to do this?
Thank you! Why didn't they say that in the instructions?
I have one blue wire…. One brown wire….. no ridges…..how to determine hot ?? Thanks
Very informative video,Thank you. I am trying to install a pendant light to a lamp cord. Problem is my pendant light has 3 clear wires and a copper wire. When I strip my lamp cord i only end up with 2 wires. On the pendant the copper wire is a ground and 2 of the clear go to my lamp cord brown wires so then what is the 3rd clear wire?
what if i have a red wire in the box? What do i do with that? And do I need a ground
Light ceiling wire that is brown- what is it?
There is a single wire. A white wire surrounded (coiled) by bare wire. Is the bare the black (hot)?
The bare wire would be the ground, and the white the neutral wire.. your missing the hot wire...
What if you have an old lighting fixture that doesn’t have ridges on either wire? No stripe either. They’re exactly the same.... also, there’s no ground wire coming from this fixture
you can test the fixture with an OHM reader, turn off the power first, disconnect the fixture from the wall, when looking in the light socket the tab in the bottom of the socket is connected to the live wire and the side ridges in the socket are connected to the neutral wire.
as for the missing ground wire, if the metal box in the wall is grounded, once you screw the metal fixture (assuming it's metal) to the metal box with metal screws it will be grounded. hope this helps, if your not comfortable performing this test call an electrician or a Handyman that knows electrical.. Cheers
But what if you have two white wires and neither have ridges? So far I cant see any different on either wire or where they hook in....no neg or pos markings.
Hi Mike,
does one wire have writing on it ? if so, that's your neutral.
Make sure the power is turned off by flipping the circuit breaker controlling the light fixture to the off position. After connecting the wires of the new light fixture to the circuit wires in the ceiling/wall box using twist-on wire nuts, you can do the following simple test using a non-contact voltage tester to find out whether your light fixture is installed correctly: With no light bulbs installed yet into the light fixture, turn on the circuit breaker and then the light switch. If the wires are connected correctly, then the voltage tester will only beep when you place it closer to the center pin or tab inside the light bulb socket, meaning that the center pin is hot but the threaded shell of the socket is neutral. If the wires are reversed, then the voltage tester will beep when you touch the threaded shell of the light bulb socket, indicating that the entire socket is energized (potential shock hazard when installing or replacing light bulbs).
My wires are all the same one has the letter L one has N and one has a circle with upside down T and two dashes under the T not sure what they mean?
How to find out if the hot and neutral wires are correctly wired or reversed?
After connecting the light fixture wires to the circuit wires in the ceiling/wall box using twist-on wire nuts, you can do the following simple test using a non-contact voltage tester to find out whether your light fixture is installed correctly: With the circuit breaker still turned off and no light bulbs installed yet, turn on the circuit breaker and then the light switch. If the wires are connected correctly, then the voltage tester will only beep when you place it closer to the center pin or tab inside the light bulb socket, meaning that the center pin is hot but the threaded shell of the socket is neutral. If the wires are reversed, then the voltage tester will beep when you touch the threaded shell of the light bulb socket, indicating that the entire socket is energized (potential shock hazard when installing or replacing light bulbs).
Can anybody link the hook or something very similar?
if by mistake i joint wrong wire together then what could be happen after turn the power on?
The light fixture will still work, but it would be a sock hazard. After connecting the light fixture wires to the circuit wires in the ceiling/wall box using twist-on wire nuts, you can do the following simple test using a non-contact voltage tester to find out whether your light fixture is installed correctly: With the circuit breaker still turned off and no light bulbs installed yet, turn on the circuit breaker and then the light switch. If the wires are connected correctly, then the voltage tester will only beep when you place it closer to the center pin or tab inside the light bulb socket, meaning that the center pin is hot but the threaded shell of the socket is neutral. If the wires are reversed, then the voltage tester will beep when you touch the threaded shell of the light bulb socket, indicating that the entire socket is energized (potential shock hazard when installing or replacing light bulbs).
How do i add a on off switch
What can happen if you get the brown wires backwards?
It creates a potential shock hasard
Where does the coper wire go ?
Verbal instructions good, visuals not so good.
That was a stupid company who created a light without clear wiring colors.
Mine has a gray wire? What do I hook that one to?
gray wire is a neutral. so it would get spliced to the white wire in the lighting fixture.
What did you call that wire nut? A merette?
Marrette connector, it's just another word for wire connector, Marrette is named after the inventor.
It’s confusing the explanation is confusing all I need to know is if the white go with the white amd of the red goes with the black I get confused when I see red wire when I’m trying to hand lights fixtures
yes. red and black are both hots. and the hots go together.
Nether of mine have ridges
What about the copper wire?
where's the link?? lol
The wire electricity ⚡️ not kill you but why 🤔electricity ⚡️
did someone wreck a car in the background at 1:35 lol
Hi Cavin, I've had a few comments on this noise.. I can't hear it on my end.
Thank you
What about the copper wire
Thank You
You're welcome