Garage Lighting

[speedog]

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Or just be a bit careful and you'll still have light to work with?

This, I worked in a new 2 bulb led strip in my garage without turning any power off. Just be safe and methodical, having light from other nearby sources certainly makes things easier .

[sabad66]

it's great you guys are so skilled / cool that you can work with live electrical, but he clearly said he has never done electrical so why downplay it and make it seem like its not a big deal?
@dj_rice if you were serious about never working with electrical, you'll be OK with just turning off the breaker, but make 100% sure it's off by turning on the existing lights and make sure they don't power up. the tester i linked is just an added layer of protection to make sure there's no current flowing and/or making sure there's no other live wires around.

It actually saved me once when i was replacing a smoke alarm in my house (the idiots who owned this place before replaced a wired smoke detector with battery only, so when i went to change it out for a smoke/CO combo unit, there were actual live wires in the same junction box i was working in which i only knew were live because of the tester)

[dj_rice]

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it's great you guys are so skilled / cool that you can work with live electrical, but he clearly said he has never done electrical so why downplay it and make it seem like its not a big deal?
@dj_rice if you were serious about never working with electrical, you'll be OK with just turning off the breaker, but make 100% sure it's off by turning on the existing lights and make sure they don't power up. the tester i linked is just an added layer of protection to make sure there's no current flowing and/or making sure there's no other live wires around.

It actually saved me once when i was replacing a smoke alarm in my house (the idiots who owned this place before replaced a wired smoke detector with battery only, so when i went to change it out for a smoke/CO combo unit, there were actual live wires in the same junction box i was working in which i only knew were live because of the tester)

Yeah I have that tester thing and I'll turn off breaker. Although the breakers aren't labelled correctly so will be alot of shutting off and running back up to see if its off. As for electrical, yes never done before, so I hope its just remove old fixture, cut wires, wire up new fixture and done. If I have to go to junction boxes and new wiring and etc, I'm noob 101

[Perfect Dark]

If you're confident that noone will come along and turn the light switch on then just turn it off and you'll be fine.

[88CRX]

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If you're confident that noone will come along and turn the light switch on then just turn it off and you'll be fine.

Not the best advice for someone who has no idea what they’re doing. Lol

[The_Penguin]

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If you're confident that noone will come along and turn the light switch on then just turn it off and you'll be fine.

I just replaced about 18 light fixtures last month. No issues except for the laundry room. Turned off the switch, removed old, left the room to get some screws, as the old ones were nasty.
Forgot that the light was on a motion sensor. Went to connect the wires, and yowza, nice little jolt. I'd like to say it's the dumbest thing I did during the reno, but I'd probably be wrong.

[ExtraSlow]

It so easy to turn the switch off, do something, turn it on again, do something, and get zapped. I've done it more than once.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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If you're confident that noone will come along and turn the light switch on then just turn it off and you'll be fine.

I need you to come install some junction boxes for me, so I can get some of those surface mount lights in my garage, that were posted earlier in the thread.

[Perfect Dark]

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I need you to come install some junction boxes for me, so I can get some of those surface mount lights in my garage, that were posted earlier in the thread.

As long as you're okay with my apparent disregard for human life in this thread I'm in haha.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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As long as you're okay with my apparent disregard for human life in this thread I'm in haha.

I mean, I disregard your life all the time, why would anyone else matter to me?

[speedog]

The problem with improving your lighting in your garage is that you'll just identify other areas in your garage that'll need improved lighting. A month or so ago, I converted an old 4 foot T8 win tube fluorescent fixture to LED - an amazing difference over my workbenches.

Yesterday I went back to the place I bought my 4 foot T8 LED bulbs from ($10 each at Supreme LED in the NE) and bought a 4 foot single fixture for $30 (regular $35, 2 rows of LED's) that runs 30W at 6000k
15 minutes thisorning and it was up and running and now I figure I need another 3 of these in my garage, 1 for sure.