Connecting Landscape Lights

You dont want to accidentally sever any cable or phone lines as you do this so call your utility companies to have them identify any underground lines they may have put near your home.

Connecting landscape lights. Set the Aux circuit up and assign it. 12 and 14 gauge wire seem to be common for most projects. Screw them back together with the electrical caps.

Simply pinch the connector onto the cable. Slip a 2-inch length of heat-shrink tubing over each lead and push them down to keep the 1 inch of bare lead available. Menu Circuit Functions Yard lights Malibu Lights Assign to Lights Exit.

We will compare the most common wiring methods below but before we do that lets consider the nemesis of wiring any landscape lighting system. Also one more thing that you have to keep in mind is that the wires that will be spliced to the already existing landscape lighting must be of the same gauge as of the original wire. Install the Lights Once installed test your lights before covering the trench.

The second number is the number of strands of wire in the cable. Most lights come with an 18 gauge wire which is way too thin for these connectors. In order to prevent voltage drop the most recommend wires are 10- gauge and 12- gauge.

Landscape Lighting Fixtures 6 Landscape Lighting Installation 53 Landscape Lighting Maintenance 28 Landscape Statue Lighting 1 LED Lighting 5 LED Technology 2 LED vs. Connect each light to the cable with a cable connector leave 10 feet before connecting a light or splitting off in different directions. Unscrew both of the electrical caps and disconnect only the fixture wiring keeping the other two wires together.

When people design landscape lighting with fixtures rather than with light in mind it will often result in an undesirable effect. Low voltage landscape lighting connections using Kichler Quick Discs and Waterproof Wire Connectors are the subject of Episode 38 of httpRustyShoveltv. 142 means that it is 14 gauge wire with two strands in the cable.