There are two wiring options.
Hard wire shop lights that have a wall plug in.
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The copper wire is the ground wire and should be capped and wrapped around a screw in the lightbox.
Normally that would have been that but alas hobby lobby had lighting lamps on sale for 50 off.
We are going to replace them.
The lights i like and can afford are plug in wall lights ikea lowe s home depot.
It s a great feeling.
The other is wire it to an exterior outlet with a transformer.
Examine the existing wiring.
Got a lamp you love but no pre wired light box in the wall or ceiling where you d like to hang it.
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One wire will be smooth on the side and the other wire will have ribs.
You don t have to do a major wiring job.
I mean it s just two little wires right.
One white one black and one copper.
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Plug in lights don t have grounds so would it even work.
Strip the casing off of the ends of the wires about 1 2 using wire strippers.
Rather than open up and rewire the wall because if i m being honest i might will almost definitely rearrange the room sometime and not want sconces there i decided to covert the hard wired lights into plug ins.
Usually a plug in fixture will not have a ground wire so you will not need this wire.
The ribbed wire is the neutral wire and the smooth wire is the hot wire.
You too can have this feeling if you wire outdoor lights to an interior light switch.
But what about the ground.
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One is to hardwire the lights to the switch itself.
You can simply re wire the lamp with an extension cord and plug it into an available wall outlet.
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And at 50 each i thought they were a steal but we did not have wiring in the spots where i wanted to hang them.
40 for a light.
You can simply re wire the lamp with an extension cord and plug it into an available wall outlet.
You will also need a screwdriver twist on wire connectors aka wire nuts or marrettes and electrical tape.
I have 2 hardwired lights above my mantle.
In all fairness i wasn t sure if it was safe to convert a plug in light to a hardwired light.
And i ve got a step by step tutorial for you too.
The metal plate i got is what will attach to the wall to keep the wires separate from the wall as they are not buried in a box like most hard wired light fixtures would be.