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  1. Electrical
    Do I have a neutral wire in order to use a smart light switch? I think the answer is yes, but I want to double check. My house was remodeled in the early 1980s, including the electrical, and I do have three prong power outlets. In my light switch electrical boxes, the switches are connected to...
  2. Electrical
    I'm trying to install a light fixture onto a junction box that previously didn't have anything connected to it. Inside the box are a black, white, and red wire along with a green ground. After connecting white to white, black to black, and ground to ground (left the red disconnected, I assume...
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  4. Electrical
    Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask my question. I have a basement that is about 3.5 meters wide by 9 meters long (11 feet by 30 feet). There are only two light fixtures, both controlled by two switches, one on either side of the room. The fixtures aren’t compatible with newer light...
  5. Electrical
    Hello, I am looking to replace a down light in my pantry that is no longer working. I am assuming that the problem is the down light itself but when looking at the installation I can’t see any clips to disconnect the light. It looks to me like it is wired directly into some kind of power...
  6. Electrical
    I currently have a 15 amp breaker that leads to 3 separate lights in my man cave. Each light has its own switch. I want to swap out one of the lights for an outlet in the ceiling. Other than swapping out the light box for a receptacle box, is there anything else I would need to worry about...
  7. Electrical
    Contractors installed new siding, and all our exterior light boxes are now about 3/4 of an inch recessed from the surface. Most of the installs I've tried have failed because the screws from the bracket to the light fixture are not long enough. What am I supposed to do in this instance...
  8. General DIY Discussions
    I've read several posts and articles now that compare can lights to canless wafer lights. While most of these articles are a few years old now, it seems that most of the consensus is choosing to opt for can lights. That said, I tend to be leaning towards the wafer lights. Before committing, I...
  9. Electrical
    Good morning! Patrick from Pennsylvania here. We just bought a new house that is 44 years old. Sellers renovated 15 years ago. There are two exterior light fixtures, one on each side of the front door. The switch does not work. When you flip the switch, you need to “turn on, then off, count...
  10. Electrical
    I have a issue with lights flickering in my home. Specifically led lights. I’ve bought a lot of brands of led lights and even most of the expensive ones flicker and strobe. I have found online and bought a couple “flicker free” brands of leds $$$ and that has seemed to solve the problem. Doing...
  11. Electrical
    I'm looking at adding some under cabinet low voltage led based lighting in our kitchen. About 6 feet or so on both sides of the range hood. Unfortunately there isn't a readily accessible power outlet in the cabinets. I'm thinking the easiest to method gain an outlet for that purpose would be...
  12. Electrical
    Trying to replace a recessed light in the ceiling. New light comes with a junction box with the standard white, black and ground wires. I was expecting the same black, white, ground when I pulled out the old light, but the old one has two black wires going to a quick connect thing with 2 red...
  13. Electrical
    Old addition on house trailer. Installing new outside light on addition porch. Wired directly to original switch. Switch only controls one light inside addition. Added outside light to switch. Black on black, white on white. So switch should now control one inside, one outside light. Nothing...
  14. Electrical
    Hello! I was wondering if someone on here could help me come up with a creative solution to a unique problem we are having. I am trying to add 4 can lights to our MBR. Believe it or not, I need a switch to operate those lights. Problem is we already have a switch that controls a fan/light in...
  15. Electrical
    Looking to figure out if there is some sort of equation I can use to figure out exactly how many outlets and lights I can have on the same breaker, online it says most lights pull about 60 watts but the box for the lights I have says 12 and I was just wondering if anyone can confirm this or am I...
  16. Electrical
    I have two LED lights (identical fixed lamps on a ceiling about 6' apart) on a dimmer and one of them keeps occasionally flickering. This has been happening for years. I have tried swapping the bulbs (with each other and new ones) and swapping the fixtures with each other. I have also tried a...
  17. Electrical
    My bathroom sensor switch controlling both the light and fan buzzed and have some popping sound yesterday and the lights/fan flashed once then stayed off. i turned off the switch and turned it on again. after few on/off trials, it is now back to normal without any weird sound. just as usual. Is...
  18. Electrical
    So my wife and I are remodeling our home (first mistake, haha!) and she wants to add under-cabinet lighting in our kitchen. I bought some UtiliTech puck lights to install; they come in strings of 3 pucks and use 120 volts and 20 watt halogen bulbs. Looking to hard-wire the lights; one string...
  19. Electrical
    We are thinking of installing new ceiling lights, in Standard 10 feet ceiling. We originally have 4 inch diameter light in the hallway. My son would keep the door open to prevent getting hot, however this hallway light was hitting the side, peripheral of his eye, very small and lot of light...
  20. Electrical
    Hi Everyone! My kitchen has 6 LED pucks in the ceiling for lighting that are controlled via a 3-way switch set-up (1 switch at each end of the kitchen). I'm trying to replace the 2 switches with the TP-Link HS210 smart switch kit (a smart switch kit for 3-way switch situations). I'm having a...
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