I'm mounting this flood light on the outside of my building:
There isn't enough space within the floodlight itself to hold the wire nuts, etc. so I need to add a junction box. I would prefer for the junction box to be on the inside of the wall so all you see from the outside is just the flood light. I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding an example of this because everything I can find online just shows flood lights being installed with very little attention being paid to the junction box being used.
The majority of the junction boxes I find at hardware stores seem to have the little 1/2" bump outs that are meant to help with drywall spacing, so it doesn't seem like they're meant for this purpose because my junction box will be facing toward the outside of my building and therefore the drywall spacers actually get in the way. Then there are metal junction boxes which have mounting holes in the back, so they seem like they're meant to be attached either indoors facing toward the inside of the building or outdoors facing toward the outside of the building.
I've done a decent amount of electrical work at this property over the past few months, so it feels little silly that I can't figure this out. Below is a picture of what I'm trying to achieve. I feel like there's a simple answer that I'm just not finding. This is new construction, so I still have easy access to run the wire/junction box inside the wall.
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There isn't enough space within the floodlight itself to hold the wire nuts, etc. so I need to add a junction box. I would prefer for the junction box to be on the inside of the wall so all you see from the outside is just the flood light. I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding an example of this because everything I can find online just shows flood lights being installed with very little attention being paid to the junction box being used.
The majority of the junction boxes I find at hardware stores seem to have the little 1/2" bump outs that are meant to help with drywall spacing, so it doesn't seem like they're meant for this purpose because my junction box will be facing toward the outside of my building and therefore the drywall spacers actually get in the way. Then there are metal junction boxes which have mounting holes in the back, so they seem like they're meant to be attached either indoors facing toward the inside of the building or outdoors facing toward the outside of the building.
I've done a decent amount of electrical work at this property over the past few months, so it feels little silly that I can't figure this out. Below is a picture of what I'm trying to achieve. I feel like there's a simple answer that I'm just not finding. This is new construction, so I still have easy access to run the wire/junction box inside the wall.
