how to install track lighting?

Question

currently an old floresent fixture is installed, how to replace it with track lighting.

Answer 1

With the wires existing from the florescent connect them to your track and screw in our track to the ceiling. It does call for a little more work than I described, but it is not that hard to do. My wife and I did it in our house. It will have instructions with the setup for them. Good Luck!

Answer 2

I'd have to agree with the person who recommended a professional.

If you feel confident you can learn how, there are good books on doing your own home electrical work. If you have a Home Depot in your area, you should be able to find a book that will teach you the important things.

Track lighting isn't hard. When you buy it, it will include directions. The basic steps:

1. Turn off the circuit breaker the light is on. (The light should go out).

2. Open the old fixture. You shouldn't need anything beyond a phillips screwdriver, most likely.

3. The fixture should be attached to the house wiring with 2 or 3 "wire nuts". Unscrew them and pull the old fixture out.

4. Physically mount the new fixture.

5. Attach the wires. White to white, black to black, and normally green goes to the bare wire. If you have an old house, then green might have to go to the metal electrical box in the ceiling. Use fresh wire nuts and make sure everything is twisted good and secure, with no exposed wire.

6. Test it.

7. Close everything up.

But really -- if you didn't know all this up front, you need to hire a professional or read a book, depending on your skills. There's a lot that's too much to talk about in this kind of space.

Answer 3

In spite of what the others say, this is something anybody can do. First, turn off the existing light and put tape over the switch so nobody accidently turns it on while you are working on it. Remove the exsisting light. When you purchase your track lighting you will need a starting point adapter, a flat plate with wire connections. Place this over the box that fed wires to the old light after you have connected the wires from the ceiling. Install lighting track where you want it to go using hollow wall inserts into the ceiling and screwing it in place securely. Position the light units where you want them. You should be able to put four to six lights on the switch. Remove the tape from the light switch and turn on your new lights.

Answer 4

yes track lighting is easy to put up but installing the unit and fixtures into it requires load calculations that electricians know like the back of their hand.

you really should call one in because I also see that you don't know what your doing here and with electrical items like this, its always best to call the pro in if you don't know what your doing with it.

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BTW, get one of those non contact voltage detectors...greenlee model at home depot.

after killing the power, test each wire with it...even the whites because someone who wired the whole house from day one could have done neutral sharing meaning if you killed the power to that box up there and the light went off there would still be power going though the white wire.

Electric is not a recommended DIY project because it is so dangerous but there are some projects that can be done.

Answer 5

I believe you wil need to call in a professional electrician as it sounds like you know next to nothing about this. Really, best to call a professional in these cases.

Answer 6

easy, target the aditional socket, the bt line and rb together to form an elctric spark, from there u can get track lightning

Answer 7

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