[nberger]

Hi Everyone,

We recently moved into a house and are looking to do some low voltage lighting outside. The previous owner told us he'd made an attempt at it, but I see no transformer and was hoping someone with a better understanding of electrical work could tell me what he did based on the images below.

Most likely, we will be moving forward with a regular set-uo for exterior lighting and removing his work.

Thanks for any info.

The images below show the outside and inside the garage where the cable was connected. https://imgur.com/a/DMVeSc6

 

[chandler48]

Most of it looks like UF-B cable. Not what I would use on a LV lighting system. Not necessary and expensive compared to direct burial LV cables. There's no transformer because, I suppose he was planning on using line voltage lights.

I think you would be right to pull all his stuff, install a transformer and install LV cable to your applications.

 

[seharper]

Fix that box. Those boxes have aimable/detachable ears, but you're supposed to use two of them! Yeah I agree if it's easy to recover the UF-B, save it for tasks that actually require 120V... but low voltage lighting is *the way to go* these days.

 

[Clydy]

It looks like the previous owner made this box just from what was at hand. Take it all to the non-ferrous metal recycling

It’s always better to do it all over again so that you yourself would understand exactly what's what

 

[nberger]

Thank you all! Will be doing low voltage new system.